summer dress
weird. i thought i paused my launchcast station while i went to have a conversation class, but it was playing when i came home. but it only played five and a half songs in the hour i was out. weird.
so it's starting to get pretty hot here. like, mid-90s on average, i'd say. and it's only mid-june. my students keep saying it's going to get way hotter. geez. i see now why they were all wearing jeans already when i got here last august. i couldn't figure it out at the time. it was in the 80s at least every day, maybe low 90s, and the students were wearing jeans. but i guess in the context of post-90s or 100 plus weather, jeans makes a bit more sense. a lot of the girls here wear skirts or summer dresses. some are weirdly 60s-esque. lots of potatosack looking dresses. but now, as the temperature rises, the clothes get skimpier. not the way it would in america necessarily. like i mentioned, the girls wear mostly skirts. if a girl's wearing shorts, they'll be tight and super duper short. much shorter than i'd feel comfortable wearing. and for every potatosack dress, there's a mini-skirt. i'm honestly suprised by how they're dressing. you hear that the chinese dress more conservatively than americans (or westerners in general, i guess), and i was fooled into thinking this was true for a while. they certainly don't wear low-cut things often. i asked some students once about their teensy skirts. they replied, you need to wear the shortest skirts you can when it gets really hot out. i don't think i had much to say back at the time, but come on people. maybe you don't understand how skirts work. and they're so sun-phobic anyway. it just doesn't make sense to me that they'd want even more skin showing to be over-protective of.
holy frick. i was just sent a link to a story about china on yahoo. a story from my very own home province, in fact. that's the type of story i feel apprehensive even reading here, because i'm afraid it'll get me blocked from yahoo from now on or something. i do have to say this. the story is sad, and i'm disappointed, but not overly suprised. today, some of my students asked me if i was scared of sars coming over here. i honestly said no. i said my only health concern was dirty needles, after reading an article about used needles being packaged up like new a few years back. my students vehemently protested this as a justified worry. "no no no!" they said. "well, it happened five or ten years ago, i think," i explained. pause. "yes, long ago. not now." not that that comforts me:)
so it's starting to get pretty hot here. like, mid-90s on average, i'd say. and it's only mid-june. my students keep saying it's going to get way hotter. geez. i see now why they were all wearing jeans already when i got here last august. i couldn't figure it out at the time. it was in the 80s at least every day, maybe low 90s, and the students were wearing jeans. but i guess in the context of post-90s or 100 plus weather, jeans makes a bit more sense. a lot of the girls here wear skirts or summer dresses. some are weirdly 60s-esque. lots of potatosack looking dresses. but now, as the temperature rises, the clothes get skimpier. not the way it would in america necessarily. like i mentioned, the girls wear mostly skirts. if a girl's wearing shorts, they'll be tight and super duper short. much shorter than i'd feel comfortable wearing. and for every potatosack dress, there's a mini-skirt. i'm honestly suprised by how they're dressing. you hear that the chinese dress more conservatively than americans (or westerners in general, i guess), and i was fooled into thinking this was true for a while. they certainly don't wear low-cut things often. i asked some students once about their teensy skirts. they replied, you need to wear the shortest skirts you can when it gets really hot out. i don't think i had much to say back at the time, but come on people. maybe you don't understand how skirts work. and they're so sun-phobic anyway. it just doesn't make sense to me that they'd want even more skin showing to be over-protective of.
holy frick. i was just sent a link to a story about china on yahoo. a story from my very own home province, in fact. that's the type of story i feel apprehensive even reading here, because i'm afraid it'll get me blocked from yahoo from now on or something. i do have to say this. the story is sad, and i'm disappointed, but not overly suprised. today, some of my students asked me if i was scared of sars coming over here. i honestly said no. i said my only health concern was dirty needles, after reading an article about used needles being packaged up like new a few years back. my students vehemently protested this as a justified worry. "no no no!" they said. "well, it happened five or ten years ago, i think," i explained. pause. "yes, long ago. not now." not that that comforts me:)