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20 oz. Pepsi Twist – 3 yuan = 40 cents
Fried Pita Smothered with Some Sort of Bean Curd Concoction & Sesame Seeds – 2.5 yuan = 30 cents
Figuring out how to get from point A to point B without a map, without help from anybody, in the vastness of Beijing - priceless (or 2 bucks if I could figure out how to communicate the address to a taxista).
Navigating by MickyD’s today I located the long-term digs I was looking for just by walking for twenty minutes in one direction and walking back to try the other direction, and repeating this three times until I finally found the sign for the road I was looking for. My map of Beijing occludes the part of the city I am in with the legend.
I’m very surprised at how much I have to try to express myself in Chinese or more often in gestures, even at hotels or at the International Student Center where I’m moving. And all this time I was hoping to use my Pig Latin. It’s a good thing, but it makes me wonder how difficult it will be to teach English well (since with the exception of the fluent speaker at the Ritz, my English conversations have been more pidgin than Standard English). But perhaps I’m overestimating how many English speakers the hoteliers would come across (since it would be out of the reach for most to travel to an English-speaking country to study). I’ve seen more signs in Korean than in English not surprisingly.
Fried Pita Smothered with Some Sort of Bean Curd Concoction & Sesame Seeds – 2.5 yuan = 30 cents
Figuring out how to get from point A to point B without a map, without help from anybody, in the vastness of Beijing - priceless (or 2 bucks if I could figure out how to communicate the address to a taxista).
Navigating by MickyD’s today I located the long-term digs I was looking for just by walking for twenty minutes in one direction and walking back to try the other direction, and repeating this three times until I finally found the sign for the road I was looking for. My map of Beijing occludes the part of the city I am in with the legend.
I’m very surprised at how much I have to try to express myself in Chinese or more often in gestures, even at hotels or at the International Student Center where I’m moving. And all this time I was hoping to use my Pig Latin. It’s a good thing, but it makes me wonder how difficult it will be to teach English well (since with the exception of the fluent speaker at the Ritz, my English conversations have been more pidgin than Standard English). But perhaps I’m overestimating how many English speakers the hoteliers would come across (since it would be out of the reach for most to travel to an English-speaking country to study). I’ve seen more signs in Korean than in English not surprisingly.
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