Luke Writes

At the Changchun Foreign Language School my classroom was a listening lab. It was a difficult room to teach in since the kids were all locked away behind glass partitions and had computers to play.

Anyway, as I learned to use the (all-in-Chinese) computer software, I spent lots of time listening to conversations that I wasn’t interested in, such as one about a student’s pet:

“I hear you have a cat like Garfield cat.”

“Yes, but it is not so nice.”
“No?”

“No. It is not so fat.”

“But it is still beautiful.”

“No, it is ugly. It wasn’t expensive, either.”

I also got to hear lots of discussions about body weight.

“Mary looks like a snowball.”

“James should have two chairs to sit on.”

“Jenny’s cheeks look like they have baozi in them”