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Experiments in Orientation
Posterous is now blocked by the GFW. Posting stuff is easy, editing posts is an annoying ordeal. Them's the commie breaks, I guess.
Instant Tour of Dandong: A Gift from Hermes
One of my students, Hermes, gave me these photos as a gift last week. They were packaged in a fancy tin with "All about The Great Hermes hometown" written on the bottom of it. The photos are of various sites in her hometown of Dandong. She put labels on the back of each photo describing what it is and why it's important to her. Pretty cool stuff.
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New Bar
There's a new bar down the street from campus. It's pretty nice inside and the liquor is cheap (though most likely fake but it still gets the job done). They have a karaoke machine and a stage but the English songs are all messed up. Most of the English songs don't have lyrics, just the music video and all the Madonna songs are mislabeled. We queued up "Like a Virgin" and it played "Cherish", we wanted to sing "Material Girl" and "Borderline" came on, none of them had lyrics; it was bullshit!
Shane and I sang most of the songs and a lot of the Chinese patrons ended up leaving because they knew they couldn't top our awesomeness (terrible). It worked out pretty well for us because all of the Chinese male patrons left but the girls that were with them ended up staying. I tried to serenade them with a moving rendition of "More Than Words". I don't think it worked. We went through a bottle of vodka, two bottles of whiskey, and a few beers. I'm in pain today.
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Costumes
I'm pretty sure I was the only costumed teacher in all of Liaoning University. In one of my classes a couple students actually dressed up as well. A few more did themselves up during class.
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More Mummies
I don't work on Friday so we celebrated Halloween during my classes today. After talking about jack-o-lanterns, vampires, and trick or treating; and teaching them about werewolves and flaming bags of shit; I set up a mummy-off for a couple of classes. I divided the class into groups and had them race to create a mummy. The first group to cover their mummy with two roles of toilet paper was the winner. This task had little to do with learning English and a hell of a lot to do with my own entertainment.
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Mr. Sun's wedding
My boss Mr. Sun (pronounced "soon", the mister part is pronounced the normal way) got married today. The wedding was pretty big, maybe 300 or so people. It wasn't as gameshowy as the other Chinese weddings I've been to but it was still pretty fun.
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