Posts Tagged ‘singing’

Singing Sensation

April 17th, 2010

I am a singing sensation! Well, that might actually be exaggerating a little bit. I’m really not much of a singer and despite that my students are always wanting me to sing. I don’t know if they’re so used to bad singing because they go to KTVs all the time, or if their ears are warped so much they think I’m just that good. How did I get talked into this? Well, after my April Fools Day joke went off so well I needed to make sure the classes didn’t tell each other. So I just asked them really nicely to not tell anyone else until the end of the week. I wasn’t expecting it, but Gee, one of the girls in my first class asked, “What are you going to do for us?”. I guess I hadn’t thought about that.

“Sing us a song…. in Chinese!”

I was reluctant to do so, but what the heck, I might as well give it a try. This is how it turned out.

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A Very “Kuaile” Christmas

December 29th, 2009

圣诞快乐!Merry Christmas!

While the U.S. has been inundated with Christmas decorations, and sales since at least Halloween, if not before, China (at least in Xi’an) has been quite theCredit to www.deluxzilla.com opposite. In fact, most shopping malls, and restaurants didn’t start putting up Christmas decorations until less than one week before the holiday! By about the 23rd of December, when I went downtown, it finally felt like Christmas was near, minus the snow.

Christmas in China, however, is not like the holiday I’m used to. It’s quite a bit different. There’s really no religious aspect to it at all. They’ve stripped it of all religious meaning and left it to simple Christmas trees, Santa Claus, and other agnostic cheer.

“Christmas has never been this important to me before” – Jinfei