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Badminton and Gals: Something of a Struggle | Let's Talk About the Sky
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Let's Talk About the Sky. The musings of a Peace Corps volunteer in China. December 23, 2014. Badminton and Gals: Something of a Struggle. Season’s greetings from China! I’m finally writing another blog post – something I’ve been failing to do for the last two months – because I’m riding high on a wave of delight at the moment. I’ve rediscovered something that I hadn’t expected to lose, and it’s a pretty grand sensation. I played with a girl. 8220;Are you tired? 8220;How about a rest? I taught a lesson o...
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Let's Talk About the Sky. The musings of a Peace Corps volunteer in China. June 28, 2014. China Meets the Many Faces of Captain America. At long last, my particular group of Peace Corps volunteers has landed safely and without major incident in China. Actually, we’ve been here about a week. That’s long enough to see things for the first time, and recover from seeing them for the first time, but not. The (not-so) universal language – it looks a lot like Charades. The art of queuing. No one lines up he...
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23 | July | 2014 | Let's Talk About the Sky
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Let's Talk About the Sky. The musings of a Peace Corps volunteer in China. Daily Archives: July 23, 2014. July 23, 2014. There are Still Golden Retrievers. People who ever understand. Whew That was a heavy start. It’s been a heavy two weeks. Let me give a brief explanation for why we are reeling so wildly having not yet been gone a month. Which struck me in the moment as an absolute high point of my life. Involved could power a spaceship, if mush stew could ever power anything. 8221; (Have you eaten?
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31 | October | 2014 | Let's Talk About the Sky
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Let's Talk About the Sky. The musings of a Peace Corps volunteer in China. Daily Archives: October 31, 2014. October 31, 2014. I have once more neglected this blog. Apologies! Peace Corps Pre-Service Training has come and gone, and now China’s National Day has zipped right on by, as well. I have been teaching for over a month now, and I have so much to say about it that I could go on forever. 8220;You use your left hand? 8220;What’s it mean? 8220;Do you use your left hand to show you’re smart? Similarly,...
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23 | December | 2014 | Let's Talk About the Sky
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Let's Talk About the Sky. The musings of a Peace Corps volunteer in China. Daily Archives: December 23, 2014. December 23, 2014. Badminton and Gals: Something of a Struggle. Season’s greetings from China! I’m finally writing another blog post – something I’ve been failing to do for the last two months – because I’m riding high on a wave of delight at the moment. I’ve rediscovered something that I hadn’t expected to lose, and it’s a pretty grand sensation. I played with a girl. 8220;Are you tired? Okay, I...
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05 | November | 2014 | Let's Talk About the Sky
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Let's Talk About the Sky. The musings of a Peace Corps volunteer in China. Daily Archives: November 5, 2014. November 5, 2014. 我是谁 Who am I – Really? If there is one thing every PC language class has in common, however, it is this objective: to create language. This is my greatest weakness in the Peace Corps language classroom. Here, what you know is largely irrelevant. What you can. I waved goodbye to my personal comfort zone quite a while back, and I’m still a long way from cozy with this new lea...
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Are American Parents Afraid? | Let's Talk About the Sky
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Let's Talk About the Sky. The musings of a Peace Corps volunteer in China. November 2, 2014. Are American Parents Afraid? And enjoy me gushing about dogs. Otherwise, buckle down to think hard about what I’m about to say. This, for some reason, sparked renewed, vigorous discussion. I wasn’t quite catching all the words, but I was being asked things along the lines of ‘do Americans always have it? 8217; and ‘Americans like it a lot, don’t they? 8220;Americans like this? 8220;Is that why? But the more we ta...
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Rough Goodbyes and Volleyball | Let's Talk About the Sky
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Let's Talk About the Sky. The musings of a Peace Corps volunteer in China. September 3, 2014. Rough Goodbyes and Volleyball. Sunday, I ate my first ice cream in Yongchuan. It was weird, white, milky, and indescribably important. With that ice cream, the idea that this was ‘home’ finally sunk it. Had become the adventure I hadn’t really expected to find, and now I was leaving that, too. That was what I was. I was prepared to be miserable. How can I put that thing here? My major – and most successful...
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There are Still Golden Retrievers | Let's Talk About the Sky
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Let's Talk About the Sky. The musings of a Peace Corps volunteer in China. July 23, 2014. There are Still Golden Retrievers. People who ever understand. Whew That was a heavy start. It’s been a heavy two weeks. Let me give a brief explanation for why we are reeling so wildly having not yet been gone a month. Which struck me in the moment as an absolute high point of my life. Involved could power a spaceship, if mush stew could ever power anything. 8221; (Have you eaten? 8221; that no one ever truthfully ...
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02 | November | 2014 | Let's Talk About the Sky
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Let's Talk About the Sky. The musings of a Peace Corps volunteer in China. Daily Archives: November 2, 2014. November 2, 2014. Are American Parents Afraid? And enjoy me gushing about dogs. Otherwise, buckle down to think hard about what I’m about to say. This, for some reason, sparked renewed, vigorous discussion. I wasn’t quite catching all the words, but I was being asked things along the lines of ‘do Americans always have it? 8217; and ‘Americans like it a lot, don’t they? 8220;Americans like this?