Putting together a referral list for one of my classes.  This means I want to make a list of all the people / services that I would want to be able to refer my clients out to when I am licensed.  I've got a short list of ones that I'm looking for, and I'm totally open to whatever you think I'm missing that would be handy to have.  If you respond, ( Read more... )

Well, school is starting to pick up steam, and the sheer enormity of my actual workload is starting to hit me.  Imagine, if you will, 20 units (class hours / week) of Chinese classes, all taught in Chinese.  That's 8 units focusing on grammer and written language, 6 on spoken language, pronunciation and colloquial grammer, 4 on the history and ( Read more... )

For the first chapter in my Chinese text this semester, we had to read a poem in order to answer several questions about it.  Below is my translation of said poem, which I am subjecting you all to for two reasons.  First, I am inordinately proud that I was able to translate this, and second, I actually think it's a fairly touching, poignant poem, ( Read more... )

    Yesterday was the first day of classes at Beijing University (or Bei Da, being short for Beijing Daxue).  My one class yesterday was tiring, in so far as listening to, and actually understanding 75% of what the teacher said in Chinese for 2 hours was exhausting to my brain (which afterwards felt more like a sock after a ten mile hike than a ( Read more... )