East Meets East (Liz is in India
Aaron is in China)

Liz - This is Teacher Xu, my spoken language instructor.  I have three teachers at the university and twice a week Teacher Xu graces us with her wisdom of Chinese oral grammar and equally wise fashion choices.  As much as we all talk together in class, I still know remarkably little about Teacher Xu:

1. Teacher Xu is from the northeast of China where they eat a lot of roast pig.
2. Teacher Xu prefers men who have ambition for their lives.
3. Teacher Xu never eats or drinks in class.
4. Teacher Xu claims she has a very broken-down house that we cannot visit.
5. Teacher Xu buys her socks from a sock street downtown.
6. Teacher Xu got married one weekend in October and almost didn’t tell us.
7. Teacher Xu knows the extent of our vocabulary and kindly defines all else.
8. Teacher Xu is fond of the phrase “天啊…,” approx. = “Oh Heavens!”                   9. Teacher Xu has a three month old dog and it is very naughty still.
10. Teacher Xu drinks with her brother-in-law when he visits Shanghai.
11. Teacher Xu believes there are too many females teaching in China.
12. Teacher Xu thinks Shanghai overall is not very interesting.

This week I’ll be covering the people at my university - my teachers, the servicemen, my language partner, my classmates - and taking photos.  My plan is to cull the photos into an album for Friday, but each day I’ll try to post my favorite taken that day.  Today’s is of Andreas Lindgren of Sweden and Tina Binkowski of Germany, both classmates:

- Aaron