This article is another look back on my two years spent in JiangxiW Province where I taught English at a small university in Yichun CityW. The first time I visited the orphanage in Yichun City, the thing that struck me the most was not the fact that almost all of the orphans were girls. Nor was [...]
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8:45 am: Arrival at the office. Instead of taking the elevator to the 9th floor, room 901, I always walk up the 9 flights of stairs so as to avoid the crowds. I can get more exercise this way as well. As soon as I enter the office, I go to the water cooler and grab [...] After four years of living in foreign lands, I awaken in the morning to the shocking realization that I have momentarily forgotten a portion of the lyrics to the Star Spangled Banner, my country’s national anthem. I am in the shower singing to myself when it hits me… “Oh, say can you see, by the dawn’s early light. [...] “WHAT DO YOU WANT TO EAT?” the waitress yells in my face as soon as I enter the restaurant. I haven’t even looked at the menu yet. The place is full of migrant workers eating their lunch. I know they are migrant workers for a variety of reasons, the number one being that their accents [...] |
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