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Post by Lotus Eater on Jun 2, 2005 16:54:14 GMT 7
Woza's grand tour. Once you have been to each person's place that person can then join the tour and continue round the circuit until they arrive back at their own home town. Sounds like a plan to me!
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Post by Mr Nobody on Jun 2, 2005 17:32:40 GMT 7
I am in, well, if the gf lets me, Ahem, I mean if it is convenient.
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Post by woza17 on Jun 2, 2005 18:29:11 GMT 7
I just slipped out of the bar to take the dog for a walk. 1. Before I got out of the compound met some more neighbours for the first time, amazing English and chatted . I invited them to dinner next week. Dog had a fight with Mr. Bejing 2 Saw these amazingly beautiful western women. I went up and asked, were they here for the International volleyball, even after this short conversation I had a crick in my neck. From Poland the Chinese will thrash them. These girls should be on a catwalk. I had forgotten how beautiful western women can be. 3 met Christina again with the big dog arranged for her to join us on our morning walk. 4There was a foreigner sitting beside the pavement with a long neck of beer I said hullo got his card and we will meet for a drink, he is also from Poland. 5 dog did some socialising 6 Picked up the laundry 7 Back to the compound met another neighbour and we chatted. An elderly couple spoke to neighbour. The couple were gorgeous and said that I was a very polite person probably because I had smiled and said nei hao. I got a bit of their story. Millana I love this country because I just have to walk out the door and it's wonderful. I think a lot of it comes down to my great attitude, easy going nature and wanting to be the centre of attention and a short attention span. Lotus is a lot like me. well she is a Woza on speed. That was 2 hours but that wasn't the half of it. Mr N you are on my list. It is starting to sound like a hit list Cheers woza
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Post by Ruth on Jun 13, 2005 13:54:17 GMT 7
Great I have been invited to Xian and now Nanning. Ruth remember you invited me for some earl grey tea are you still up for it ? Absolutely. My spare bedroom is a classroom, but we have a couch you are welcome to.
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Post by Chips Downe on Oct 21, 2005 23:06:06 GMT 7
I hate the students' arrogance. Since they don't know anything outside of China, my conversation lessons always end up with references to China. Since I'm a teacher - and aim to be well-prepared - (and since I'm a 'Westerner' and not as stupid as the average Zhou Blow) I do my research. But they always tell me I'm wrong. I'd never have contradicted my teachers so rudely.
Example: Gong Fu (not even 'Kung Fu'... but then they never say 'chopsticks' either... they universally in China say See nyee... but insist we pronounce Chinese geographic names in pure Putonghua) anyway, despite Google, with it's 2 million references (I'm not kidding) Gong Fu is not Chinese Boxing, never has been and etc etc etc...
With my well-paid part-time classes I don't argue. Sure, 'wall' has no plural. Sure. the Japanese never went to Nanjing... but it pisses me off here at the local University of Futire Shop-keepers...
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Post by Mr Nobody on Oct 22, 2005 1:39:51 GMT 7
well, "kung fu" really just means sort of "skill acquired through hard work" and isn;t necessarily related to martial arts, and specifically isn't chinese boxing. Chinese boxing specifically refers to a small number of mostly southern styles from around Guangzhou. One well known exception of course is the white lotus society of the boxer rebellion.
I liked the Zhou blow thing though.
chopsticks are either fai jee (cantonese in my special wade giles) or kuai zi (putonghua pin yin) as far as I know.
Western ideas of what is kung fu and what is chinese boxing notwithstanding. The pinyin is apparently "gong fu". The Wade Giles is "Kung Fu".
Few Chinese people know anything about kung fu since the vast majority of their masters fled the cultural revolution to more salubrious climes. The rest lived in secret until recently. Some of these are well known to me.
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Post by Decurso on Oct 23, 2005 12:13:42 GMT 7
The good....
1.the easy pace of life...I work 14 hours a week. 2.The low cost of living......the other night me and the missus had tang cu li ji,two plates of fried rice and two botles of beer for 14 yuan! 3.Making new friends every night. 4.Breaking every western rule of social ettiquette. 5.Doing a job I genuinely believe in...instead of making sure the soup aisle is full.
The bad... 1.The inefficancy..It's maddening at times and hard not to slip into "ugly lawoai" mode. 2.The stares and hellloooos. 3.The pollution. 4.The train stations. 5.Getting sick every month.
The good far outweighs the bad.
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Post by con's fly is open on Oct 23, 2005 13:10:07 GMT 7
The good: 1. Being qualified to work with kids. 2. Disposible income. 3. Getting paid for what I'm good at. 4. A break with my past (dull as it was). 5. Fantastic yet cheap food. 6. The vibrant street life. 7. The ostentatious public sculptures and neon. 8. The friendly and well-meaning locals. 9. A vast , undiscovered (by me) country. 10. No family. The bad: 1. The hideous inefficiency. 2. Being unable to speak the language. 3. The public toilets. 4. Hygiene generally. 5. No hockey or football. 6. No Ship and Anchor, my beloved pub. 7. No family.
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Post by amewupp on Oct 23, 2005 18:23:17 GMT 7
To take this completely off-topic , everytime I see the title of this thread, I get the theme song from the tv show "The Facts of Life" stuck in my head....it's maddening! "Ya take the good, ya take the bad, ya take it all, and then ya have, the facts of life...the facts of life..."
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Post by George61 on Oct 23, 2005 20:25:04 GMT 7
Yankee hi-jacker! I don't even know the show you're talking about. The good is, I think I'm happy. The bad is, There is grass on the other side of the fence.
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Post by Mr Nobody on Oct 24, 2005 8:16:33 GMT 7
I think the neighbour's grass has lawn beetles.
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Post by con's fly is open on Oct 24, 2005 17:40:45 GMT 7
Goddammit, Am! The song's stuck in my head now!
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Post by Mr Nobody on Oct 24, 2005 21:56:50 GMT 7
I have no idea what ya'll talking about. Thankfully, I don't watch TV.
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Post by amewupp on Oct 25, 2005 1:25:05 GMT 7
The Facts of Life was a TV show that ran from 1979-1988. When I think back on it, it really was quite a bad show, but hindsight is 20/20. Goodness knows how it lasted as long as it did. FYI: www.tv.com/facts-of-life/show/357/summary.html
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Post by Mr Nobody on Oct 25, 2005 19:07:16 GMT 7
With great trepidation, I opened the website, and recoiled in horror at the visage revealed.
Fortunately, I recovered with the help of a baijiu mudslide.
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