I heart my students 4-ever

The assignment:
Write 20 sentences describing people in your life. This can include family, friends, teachers... whomever.

The result:
Here are some of the sentences my students wrote about their family and friends. Enjoy! (Remember, they are just learning to type, as well as do grammar & punctuation in a foreign language.)

My mother is very pretty. My father is very fat.

Another very important person in my life is my cousin. He is tall and thin. He is so cute in girl's eyes.

Of course I have a girlfriend, she is very pretty. She studies in Qingdao. I like her very much. HOHO.

My fathers name is Norbu. He is about 60yrs old. He likes to watch and play soccer.

My younger brother is short. He loves green very much. He also likes swimming.

My parents are paesants... They are very tired every day. However,they never tell the feelings to us.

My sister's twenty-four years old. Her hair is long and black. Her eyes are big. She is a smart girl.

My mother is very kind. She loves my father very much. My father is handsome and smart.

My father is also very tall, he likes play basketball and drink tea in his free time.

My grandmother is 67 years old . There are so many wrinkle covers her face and forehead. So,she looks pretty old. however, i think, she has a young heart.

My friend La ba is so cute. He is good at playing basketball.

Both of my grandmothers are healthy. They love children very much. So they often give the snack to the children nearby.

My brother is a student in senior school . He is tall and handsome . He love sports best ,but he is poor in his study.


How would you describe your family and friends?
Maybe more interesting.... how would they describe you??

Search and rescue mission

Well, you found me! Thanks to my friends, I've found a new blog home. The "Great Firewall" has blocked my last site, and I had to find a new place to put my thoughts. Same thoughts, new space. In some ways, this is a nice home, but the colors etc. are not as customizable as my last site. So bear with me while things go through upheaval.

I still get many of my friends' updates from X. The emails still come, but I can't go to your sites, comment on anything, or read others' comments. I'm hoping this is temporary, but it may not be...

Anyway, hope I still get some fun comments on the new posts... Sorry for the inconvenience of the move!

~bitsyinchina

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To inagurate this new site, that oddly has no spell-check, I thought I'd post a conversation my friend and I had yesterday. The first time I came to China, I taught English for a month in a west-central city. Chris was one of my students that summer, and he and I still keep in touch off-and-on through text messags. So yesterday I was thinking of him and his classmates, and I sent a message. Here's what transpired (translated by yours truly):

Me: Hi, friend. How are you? I hope you're having a good day.
C: Yes, today's great! How are you?
Me: I'm really good! What are you doing?
C: We're playing (something Chinese I don't know) [the word 'play' in Chinese just means 'not working'-- he was just playing around w/ friends.]
Me: Are you winning?
C: What do you mean am I winning? It's just exercise!
Me: I know. I'm just kidding!
C: Oh. What are you doing?
Me: I just went and bought some food. I'm on my way home now.
C: Oh. So why did you decide to go to your city to work?
Me: Because I like mountains! :) I like this part of China, and I couldn't go to your hometown, so I came here.
C: Why couldn't you go to my hometown? Is it because it's too backward? I'd love to see you again!
Me: I want to see you again, too! [It's been about 3 yrs since I have seen these students.] There were no jobs in your hometown, so I didn't go. It's definitely not because it's "backward." Your hometown is not backward!
C: So when are you coming to my city to play? I miss you! [He's in uni in a new city now.]
Me: I don't know! I'd love to go. Is Sophie still there, too? [Sophie's another student of mine.]
C: Yeah, she's here. She misses you, too!
Me: Are you guys at the same school still? Are you studying the same major?
C: Same school, different major. Actually, we don't get to see each other often.
Me: Oh... tell her I said "hi," ok?
C: No problem!
Me: thanks :)

**to this point, a normal conversation...**

C: Don't be so polite! I have to go make dinner soon. Oh yeah, when are you going to get married?
Me: Me?? How can you ask me that? I don't have a boyfriend. What's there to do??
C: Come to my city!! I have tons of friends. I'll introduce you to them, haha!
Me: Haha! They're probably all way younger than me!
C: Some are. I have a lot of foreign friends!
Me: [To go along w/ the joke] Really? Find me a guy from Ireland, then! ;) Haha!
C: Ok, I'll find you a nice guy from Angola!
Me: No! That's not what I said! :-P
C: Then forget it. Marry me.

**huh??**

Me: Haha! Do you have a lot of money? Can you speak English??
C: [he writes in English] Yes! I can speak English but i do not have money!
Me: Hmmm... I'll think about it.
C: Yeah, you think it over. Haha!

What a funny conversation! I laughed outloud! :) My students are so crazy... each in their own way. Now I'm just trying to think of something to send him to freak him out a little... something like, "so, have you called my father to ask for permission yet?" Any ideas? Leave a comment.

Hope you enjoyed the story. Stay tuned for more stories from the nuttier side...