Monday, June 05, 2006
Yes it is exam time everybody
So it's obvious that I have exams again, somewhat differently I have actually studied this semester, and hopefuly this will show. To answer Lil's question I have many stories about my non-english speaking group, and one answer; the one that the other Chinese thought "had a different accent" and would avoid somewhat, well it turns out she was from Taiwan, as opposed to my other three who were from Beijing and Shanghai, which I believe was the cause of the tension. How's that for a run on sentence?
This Taiwanese girl ( I was never totally sure) had the most amazing moustache, I mean better than I could ever grow and possibly on par with Robbs facial hairiness, Oh and Yaya from Beijing (cool name huh?) well he was so quiet in person, and probably the best of the Chinese in terms of working, whenever I would say in an email "We can do this!" he would reply "Yes Fight It!!!!!!' Which I always found rather endearing. Their english was always patchy, I looked over some of their reports and I'd say they were probably grade 5 standard. It seemed that tense was the thing that always tripped them up and they all had excellent vocabularies which I found odd. Perhaps they learned their english by memorising nouns..... I did lose a little respect when I found out that wealthy Chinese people in the PRC send their kids to english lessons from around age 4, I mean I hope that I would have made some more progress if I was in their situation.
Neways Not much else to report, I haven't started freaking out about exams yet, but I think I might still be basking in the glow of handing in a 200 page assignment today, 70 Hours it's taken we estimate, well probably about 140 Man hours.
Glad to get rid of that monster.
Maybe more interesting posts to follow.
This Taiwanese girl ( I was never totally sure) had the most amazing moustache, I mean better than I could ever grow and possibly on par with Robbs facial hairiness, Oh and Yaya from Beijing (cool name huh?) well he was so quiet in person, and probably the best of the Chinese in terms of working, whenever I would say in an email "We can do this!" he would reply "Yes Fight It!!!!!!' Which I always found rather endearing. Their english was always patchy, I looked over some of their reports and I'd say they were probably grade 5 standard. It seemed that tense was the thing that always tripped them up and they all had excellent vocabularies which I found odd. Perhaps they learned their english by memorising nouns..... I did lose a little respect when I found out that wealthy Chinese people in the PRC send their kids to english lessons from around age 4, I mean I hope that I would have made some more progress if I was in their situation.
Neways Not much else to report, I haven't started freaking out about exams yet, but I think I might still be basking in the glow of handing in a 200 page assignment today, 70 Hours it's taken we estimate, well probably about 140 Man hours.
Glad to get rid of that monster.
Maybe more interesting posts to follow.
