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.
Summer Project 2016
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Tag: Relationships
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.
Xi Xia
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Our destination, Xi Xia (pronounced ‘she sha’), had been talked up ever since I arrived at site last year. “If Xi Xia was a boy he’d be my boyfriend <3.” – back-side of a note passed to me by student.
Chinese Wedding
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In total I drank sixteen or seventeen small cups of the clear, fiery liquor with an assortment of Chinese wedding people.
6 Mid-Autumn Day Miracles
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After a while we ran into a group of about fifty elementary schoolers who were also hiking. We could hear them long before we saw them. They were eager to catch a glimpse of the ‘foreigner’ as we passed by. I made sure to high-five them all!