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Posted on: Food Oddities and Eye Exercises
January 7, 2009 at 5:01 AM

Eye exercies - one of the funny and unexpected moments of English Teaching in China.  I remember on my first day, after class 2 or 3, the bell rang - but nobody moved (usually these middle school students practically trampled each other running out of class).  I asked what was up, and the students said 'eye exerices' - I said What? and they mimicked some of the movements.  I stood there puzzled for about 30 seconds when all of a sudden this LOUD music and counting starts coming from the loud speaker and ALL the students start with the eye exercies!  Twice a day, every day!

Posted on: Lao Wang's Office 2: Welcome to the Team
August 24, 2008 at 3:58 AM

I'm enjoying these lessons, but find the speed of the expansion sentences too fast!  I've even had chinese speakers tell me that these sentences are read awfully fast!