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.
Chatting with my dog about airports
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Tag: Peace Corps China
VSV And Me
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So, if you’re like me and wish you could remember how many times you actually wore pants during high school, this article might be for you. Here are two easy, practical ways to keep track of your service that can help optimize your mental health.
Linguistic Stir Fry
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So far, my time mixing languages, dialects of languages, conversations, questions, answers, and misunderstandings could be summed up in one word: bewildering.
Summer Project 2016
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The Banana Method. Theoretically, this delicious method of speech preparation was supposed to get my students ready to speak, but practically we had more fun with it than that.
What We Do On A Long Weekend
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This last weekend there was a traditional Chinese holiday called Dragon Boat Festival. Almost everyone gets to play hooky from school for it in China. As for me, I started a campfire with a koala bear.
Corner Coffee
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After the wrap we celebrated with a cake and a lot of beer until the wee hours of the morning. It was then, during the zenith of my inebriated clarity, that I realised something. “I, too, am tipsy,” I slurred aloud in non-tonal Chinese to the twenty or twenty-five people in the room.