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Demolition
I like this street next to my school because it's a very active street of small shops, raised up a few steps from the street, the way I imagine a medieval town would have been. Unfortunately, the road functions like an open-air sewer, which is probably quite similar to the age of plague and... Read more...
Published 3 months ago
Lies!
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Published 3 months ago
Office Adventures
In the office the other day... Sven: I'm off to class to have mad fun with our apathetic teenagers!Carol: Good job! Did you learn that word from David?Sven: What?Meg: He said "mad fun" not "ma fan". (Chinese for problems or trouble)Carol: Wow, your tones are almost as bad as Sven's.Subscribe to... Read more...
Published 3 months ago
Talent Show
On Friday, my class played Hippopotamus. This is an awesome game for mixed levels, easily modified for students' English abilities and not mind-numbingly repetitive. You send one person into the hall while the rest of the class picks a verb. Their classmate comes back and has to guess what action... Read more...
Published 3 months ago
Yanjing
My specs had a tragic accident today. After Sven helped me out at school with a superglue temporary fix, I went to the specs store to get new ones. We get Stick's contact lens solution at a little glasses shop by our apartment, so I knew where to go, but I hadn't really looked at potential... Read more...
Published 3 months ago
Slight Improvement
My reading has improved to the point where I'm no longer tormenting Stick by reading numbers and compass directions from signs. Today we passed one with the combination ç"µåŠ›, so I sang "It's electric! Boogie-woogie-woogie!"Sometimes I wonder how Stick puts up with me.Subscribe to Violet Eclipse... Read more...
Published 3 months ago
Politics In The Market
Although I'm still mourning my old veggie market, I've found a nice new place down the street. I miss chatting with my patient veggie lady, but this new shop is pretty good. The produce is fresh, the shop's clean, the prices decent, and the employees, after shrieking their surprise that I can... Read more...
Published 3 months ago
Who Do You Love?
I played a round of Who Do You Love? with my students on Friday. You put the chairs in a circle so almost everyone can sit down, and one person is left standing in the middle. The person in the middle asks someone sitting down "Who do you love?"The person sitting down can say everyone, no one, or... Read more...
Published 3 months ago
Selective Hearing
Let me explain how Saturday morning works in our house. After I've been up for a few hours -- and I am not an early riser -- I try to get Stick moving. I offer him coffee, I remind him of the things we had planned to do today, I ask him what he wants for breakfast, I tell him there's plenty of... Read more...
Published 3 months ago
Freedom Fries With Chinese Characteristics
I heard a rumor at school today that the Tous Les Jours bakery was picketed by anti-French groups (who apparently don't know that Tous Les Jours is owned by a South Korean company). Anyone know if this is true?Subscribe to Violet Eclipse by Email Read more...
Published 3 months ago
Washing My Hair
We stopped in Wu-Mei Mart the other night to buy out their entire stock of see if they had any Herbal Essences. To my great delight, I found a rack of the old-style conditioners, but I searched for the matching shampoo until finally a shop assistant showed me where it was.In my defense, the... Read more...
Published 3 months ago
Apathetically Playing Charades
I played Secretly Eating Pizza, an adverbs/verbs charades game with my teenagers yesterday and today. I put together this one for my Yantai drips, asa reward for all their hard work learning the difference between adjectives and adverbs. The game is quite simple, basically, you pick an adverb and... Read more...
Published 3 months ago
