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Finding H
How do you find things when you can't speak the local language or read the signs, maps etc? Well, I don’t know about you but this was my process this morning for one such occasion.
A friend has invited me to visit her apartment that she has recently moved into. Then I’ll stay for lunch, to which some others are going to be invited.
I asked her via email how I could find her home. She replied "For the ...
It’s on the Internet --> It’s True
... described that “…action plans have been drawn up …”
Judge for yourself. The two stories, when I last looked, are at http://www.china.org.cn/china/2012-11/2 8/content_27247159.htm and http://www.china.org.cn/china/2012-11/3 0/content_27272682.htm
Who to ...
Xie dai (鞋带)
... the laces were. I hadn't been able to find them even though I looked where I thought I had seen them before & in the immediate vicinity.
As I laced them into my shoes later I thought, I could have said "Yǒu ma" – literally “have?” Sometimes I remember the right Chinese to say, but this was about 10 ...
Trials & Tribulations, Smiles and Felicitations
... on my USB drive.
My last class for this week just finished (today is Saturday) didn’t play sound files, or rather, the file was played but I couldn’t hear it. Remember this in the context of Windows, the media player and the computer desk all being in Chinese.
I decide to go to the room I will be using at the beginning of next week and try it there. Up one flight of stairs in the ...
Two Questions: To Go? To Return?
... statements of past actions.
Then today I read that "More than 72 percents [sic] of overseas Chinese students have returned to China after finishing education abroad since the late 1970s." That still leaves a sizeable 28 percent who have gone and stayed, and considering that these stats are from the 1970s, it is unlikely that many will come back now.
It looks ...