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Posted on: The Frog Prince in the Well
September 28, 2010 at 1:26 AM

cool story!  I never heard this version of the Frog Prince before.

Posted on: Construction
September 27, 2010 at 1:36 AM

Lots of good vocabulary here.

Posted on: Your First Mooncake
September 26, 2010 at 8:14 AM

"fresh mooncake" sounds like "fresh fruitcake". I guess I didn't realize there was such a thing, not that either a mooncake or a fruitcake comes out of the oven weeks old. Or maybe I should say that I didn't realize that some place specializes in sellling mooncakes that had been baked the same day they are being sold. In that case, how "fresh" is fresh, three hours?

Posted on: Giving Instructions to the Ayi
September 23, 2010 at 1:52 AM

Yeah, I understand. I also felt the same way at one time. Boards don't really lend themselves well to deep philisophical discussions.

Posted on: Giving Instructions to the Ayi
September 22, 2010 at 12:41 AM

FWIW, my daughters are on the way to having native speaker mandarin because of our ayi. Just another bennie :-)

Posted on: Giving Instructions to the Ayi
September 21, 2010 at 1:34 AM

yep, different circles, different cities. When we lived in Lanzhou, we didn't know anyone with an ayi either. This was in a city with about 150 permanent expats out of maybe 2 million residents.

Some years later, we moved to Beijing, and every expat family we know (maybe 20 or so) in Beijing has either a part time, full-time, live-in or 2 part-time ayis. Many of the single expats have part-time cleaning ayis.

How about this? In Lanzhou, there wasn't a place called Jenny Lou's or April Gourmet either. I wish I had known about these stores that sold western/American/European/Australian foods when we lived in Lanzhou; I would have had pancakes instead of breakfast gruel.

http://www.cityweekend.com.cn/beijing/listings/shopping/supermarkets/has/sanlitun/

Posted on: 输入法
September 21, 2010 at 1:18 AM

This lesson lacks the pinyin and English translations.

Posted on: Working in the Countryside
September 20, 2010 at 3:13 PM

Good job cpod!

Posted on: 我不做剩女
September 15, 2010 at 11:19 AM

well, what i've casually seen is that the guy in the rural village tends also not to have a college education. I've been encountering plenty of Chinese women that are still single that have college educations, so the rural/urban matchmaking would have some challenges there as well (aside from the many difficulties associated with matchmaking anyway).

Posted on: 我不做剩女
September 15, 2010 at 2:37 AM

pressure, pressure, pressure.