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“Do not drink milk in China,” a friend warned me yesterday. “My auntie, who is a nurse, told me that her hospital is full of children who are sick from drinking Chinese milk.” Fortunately, I am not a big milk drinker but there are thousands of children throughout China and Asia who are victims of [...]
“They installed cameras at the front door of our church,” a foreign friend recently explained to me. “We have to check the passports of every churchgoer who looks Asian otherwise we will receive a call from the local police on Monday morning.” My acquaintance was telling me about the house church that he attends in [...]
“Drink like a fish” were the only English words that our marketing director seemed to know as he toasted the foreign teachers’ table at our Mid-Autumn Holiday dinner last night. Some of the foreign teachers took him up on the suggestion but others found it more fun to simply sit back and watch the festivities taking place. [...]
The Weekly China Roundup from TeachAbroadChina.com
A mooncake alternative — Maybe you are like me and simply do not like the taste of Chinese mooncakes. My students tell me this week that ice cream mooncakes are readily available throughout China on this holiday weekend. Some ice cream mooncakes even have fruit inside and should serve [...]
I wish I could claim that the Chinese government read my recent post entitled What Chinese People Will Not Understand About Sarah Palin before they announced this week that they are going “to allocate 600 million yuan (about 87.7 million U.S dollars) to build 190 special schools for the disabled this year.” While I doubt that the Chinese government [...]
Most of my Chinese friends and students act as if I am claiming that men live on Mars when I tell them about the atrocities that are taking place in North Korea. For them, North Korea is their friendly Communist neighbor and the mere suggestion that people there are dying of starvation or that the regime is [...]
“Quite a few of your English students are prostitutes,” a friend told me today as she recounted a conversation that she had with her hair stylist recently. “The guy who cut my hair told me that many of your training center’s female students come to him two or three times a week to get their hair done before they go [...]
The Weekly China Roundup from TeachAbroadChina.com
China wonders about Sarah Palin — The Financial Times is reporting that Sarah Palin’s name has become of one of the most searched for keywords on Chinese search engines this week. One aspect of Governor Palin’s life that will undoubtedly intrigue many here is the birth of her fifth child [...]
Most of my Chinese friends as is the case with many Americans, know very little about Governor Sarah Palin, John Mcain’s choice for running mate in the 2008 Presidential Election. When they do learn more about her, there is one aspect of her life that will undoubtedly catch the attention of many people here. Earlier [...]
His name is Junior. He does not look remarkable; he is short with glasses and sports a buzz haircut. His lunch, which he carries to school every day is also unremarkable. It usually consists of mostly rice and vegetables which a little meat scattered here and there. Junior is one of my adult English students [...]
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