| the old pond / frog jumps in / plop! – Matsuo |
The warriors then feasted on some of the raw organs while the rest cooked for us. We proceeded to have a good time, drinking beer and the cooked goat. It was like cookout back in the Midwest, except over an open fire in the middle of the day.
It felt like my heart was going to stop. She told me that I need to get some water. That I was having a panic attack. I could barely hear her. A panic attack – for the first time in my life.
When learning Chinese it’s best to remember that we can all learn more together than we can alone. Despite this, some people still go about thinking “us women know best” – girl
Put your thumb on the direct geographical center of any modern map of China and you’d crush my village, jerk. Cheng County, nestled in the mountains of Gansu province, is small by Chinese standards. In China, “small” means 250,000 people. I would tell locals that my hometown had 5,000 people and they’d look astonished… or,…
The first thought that pops into my head when I think of a host is a viral swarm of protein crushing the life out of a tiny organism just before apoptosis.
When Marco Polo left Italy for China in the year 1271 with his father and uncle he had no idea what he was in store for. Along a similar vein, two weeks ago every Peace Corps Trainee received their site placement for the next two years. It is the place where they will teach and eat…
