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| Xanga hasn\'t been working so well for me lately, so I\'m not sure how much I will be using it. If it gets unblocked here maybe I will be more inclined to use it again but I have found another blog site and for the time being I think I will be using it. http://www.lifeinchina.cn/lic/?3264 Feel free to check out my new site, but I will give you a warning, i\'m attempting a bi-lingual blog. So if you want to read the Chinese(instead of whatever else appears) you may need to change some settings on your computer. But It will also be in English so don\'t worry too much, for now.
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| I\'ve always wanted a Chinese name, I thought it would be cool especially if someone asks me if I have one. I\'ve asked my students to give me one but no one has been willing. On Saturday when we were out with my students they asked me if I had a Chinese name, so I decided to give myself one, I named myself meiyou (pronounced mayo). In Chinese meiyou can have many different meanings, the most common one however means that someone or some place is out of something, or they don\'t have something.(ûÓÐ) Personally I think its a great name and it could be used as a learning tool for all of the Chinese people who want to be named really dumb names like; Lakers, Stone, Hakkas, Moon, Fly, and Rambo) But some of the other meaning that I found could mean Eyebrow friend (üÓÑ) , Abundant Eyebrows (üÓÅ), Outstanding Eyebrows(üÓÈ), or Seductive Eyebrows (üÓÕ) For those of you who don\'t really know me I have a big uni brow so that\'s why I\'ve chosen some eyebrow adjectives.
Nicki thinks I should be named \"not have\" and then she can be named \"have,\" which would be funny. Maybe I will choose that one.
We went out with Nicki\'s student yesterday and her boyfriend drove, we felt much safer and didn\'t have any near accidents! However our golfing outing was a disaster. Nicki and I were under the impression that we would all go golfing together, but because Nicki has never played and Nicki\'s student really hasn\'t played the plan was going to be me and the boyfriend were going to hit the course and Nicki and here student were going to hit the driving range. Well Nicki and I thought that that idea sucked and didn\'t want be separated, we wanted to go golfing. In the end we all decided to go to the driving range based on some excuse that the course won\'t let just anyone play, you need to prove yourself first on the driving range before you can go on the actual course. After that Nicki and I decided to go home.
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| I\'ve always wanted a Chinese name, I thought it would be cool especially if someone asks me if I have one. I\'ve asked my students to give me one but no one has been willing. On Saturday when we were out with my students they asked me if I had a Chinese name, so I decided to give myself one, I named myself meiyou (pronounced mayo). In Chinese meiyou can have many different meanings, the most common one however means that someone or some place is out of something, or they don\'t have something.(ûÓÐ) Personally I think its a great name and it could be used as a learning tool for all of the Chinese people who want to be named really dumb names like; Lakers, Stone, Hakkas, Moon, Fly, and Rambo) But some of the other meaning that I found could mean Eyebrow friend (üÓÑ) , Abundant Eyebrows (üÓÅ), Outstanding Eyebrows(üÓÈ), or Seductive Eyebrows (üÓÕ) For those of you who don\'t really know me I have a big uni brow so that\'s why I\'ve chosen some eyebrow adjectives.
Nicki thinks I should be named \"not have\" and then she can be named \"have,\" which would be funny. Maybe I will choose that one.
We went out with Nicki\'s student yesterday and her boyfriend drove, we felt much safer and didn\'t have any near accidents! However our golfing outing was a disaster. Nicki and I were under the impression that we would all go golfing together, but because Nicki has never played and Nicki\'s student really hasn\'t played the plan was going to be me and the boyfriend were going to hit the course and Nicki and here student were going to hit the driving range. Well Nicki and I thought that that idea sucked and didn\'t want be separated, we wanted to go golfing. In the end we all decided to go to the driving range based on some excuse that the course won\'t let just anyone play, you need to prove yourself first on the driving range before you can go on the actual course. After that Nicki and I decided to go home.
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| Last night was really interesting, and really scary. One of Nicki's students offered to give us a ride home in her boyfriends mini-van (we think it was his, but it may have been hers). Anyways we get in the van and we start to pull out and we heard this high pitched beeping noise (the vans proximity warning) immediately before we hit the passengers side door of a car who was driving in the street. Now I need to explain that normally on this road two cars can barely pass each other, however when school is in session the road has so many cars just parked on the side of the road (and I'm using the word "side" liberally) and on the sidewalk that the road becomes jammed and its very difficult for cars to go through one way let alone both ways. So like I said we hit the passenger side of the other car, we didn't just side swipe it we pretty much T-boned it. Fortunately we had just pulled out so we weren't going more than 5mph but we scraped the other car pretty good and our bumper was slightly damaged as well. So there was much yelling from the other car and some tears from our car and eventually we left. When the yelling was going on Nicki and I didn't know what to do. Here we are trapped in this car not knowing how long it will be, Nicki doesn't really know this student well (she's a new student, only been coming for about a week), and there is the problem of saving/loosing face. If we had left then our student would have lost even more face than what she already has by ramming into this car that was right in front of her.
We left and started going home and it was one of the scariest rides home that I've ever had. She was still shaken up by the fender bender, but usually when that happens people drive more carefully. Not her. She was all over the road, we almost hit several cars on the way home, and a few almost hit us. Then we were telling her where our apartment was, we said turn right on this road and she turned then we said turn left on the next road but she didn't see the road and passed it by 10 feet before she stopped. At this time there were no cars driving on the road so she could have backed up then gone down our road, right? Wrong. She decides that she need to practice doing a three point turn. She pulls forward, decides she can't go anymore forward before she hits something, then backs up! There was a bus behind us, her proximity warning is going off and we thought that we were going to hit the bus. Some how we don't, so she pulls forward again and we almost hit a motorcycle! Thank goodness that we only lived a few hundred yards up the road. She let us off and said she will pick us up on Sunday to go either golfing or to play badminton. Pray for us!
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| My life lately has been pretty busy with teaching, watching CSI NY, and studying Chinese, (in that order). I am excited though, hopefully Chinese will take the place of CSI (and not because we just finished the NY series, we now have the Las Vegas series that we started last night!). Right now I'm pretty excited about studying again so I hope that I can keep it up for a while. We found a Chinese teacher who will help us occasionally when we're free and she's free. Now my studying invloves reading a book which I think is called "a million questions" or "so many questions ( 十万个为什么)." Its a childrens book that helps explain different things to them. The chapter that I just finished was talking about all the stars in the sky and how there are so many of them. Now I'm tackling why some peoples skin is white and some are black. I really like this book more than the fairy tales that I've read because it talks about stuff that I might be able to use in my every day conversations.
Well that's all for now,
till next time
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