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Posted on Wednesday November 11th, 2009 at 17:00 in china, doctor, General, china expat advice, china expat rants, swine flu, h1n1
I’m going to be honest. I don’t really know how to write an introduction for this. You all know the story by now. H1N1 is going around and it is either a media creation or a harbinger of the apocalypse. So I would like to apologiz...
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Posted on Wednesday November 11th, 2009 at 05:16 in school, china, teaching, teaching esl, swine flu, chinese politics & news, h1n1
As an English teacher at a 6,000-strong middle school in the northwest of Hunan province, I come into contact with several hundred students a day. My course load puts me in front of roughly 850 students a week. In a school as cramped as mine, the...
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Posted on Thursday November 5th, 2009 at 21:54 in travel, Photography, photos, farmers, featured photos, china photos, tiananmen square, tiananmen, elephanonabicycle, zhao hua xi shi
Another great photo from Beijing-based photographer Zhao Hua Xi Shi, previously “Elephant on a Bicycle”. I encourage everyone to browse through this talented self-taught photographer’s photostream. The photos do an amazing job of t...
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Posted on Tuesday November 3rd, 2009 at 18:08 in funny, videos, TV, Police, humour, traffic, chengdu, chinese entertainment, china videos
Ever wonder what happens when an edutaining Chengdu traffic cop runs square into China’s fēi zhǔliú culture? Well, wonder no longer. Thanks to the relatively new blog, Veggie Discourse, having subtitled this in English, we can all enjoy a ge...
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Posted on Monday November 2nd, 2009 at 00:00 in learning chinese
Now back to my regularly scheduled language beat, I’d like to share a couple of links with you that should help put the study of Chinese into perspective. First, Ben Ross debunks the myth that Chinese is the hardest language to learn in the wor...
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Posted on Sunday November 1st, 2009 at 09:41 in relationships, General, shanghai, dfink
Salutations! I believe a short introduction in order before we engage in relations. Entirely platonic, I assure you. I have nothing but the most noble intentions for the readers here at LLW. I’m the new jerk! Fink, a Laowai who is most definite...
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