Guy came in today from Holland. His name was Doug and is a friend of my friend Tim.

He actually lives in China. He speaks Chinese. His girlfriend is Chinese. He is a tour guide there...which he says pays him very well ( Read more... )

Well, I went with friends to a small party this evening. I went with happy_accidents (think she has still closed her account for now) and Rob and alex_j to their friends' house ( Read more... )

Well, I am working ( Read more... )

With world cup football/soccer games being in Berlin next year, German Police are gearing up for the public.
In doing so, according to EuroNews, they are learning English. (I would say that they are 'refreshing' their English, because they have undoubtedly learned some already).

That's pretty handy! I saw on their dry-erase board topics such as:

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Isn't interesting what we will do for when we have to ( Read more... )

Recently there has been continuous debate on the issue of what the state of Kansas calls "imminent design." At first, I thought, fine, they want to teach some religious version of human creation. We called it "creationism vs. evolution" in my day. Because of the change in terms, I may even still be confused on the point of the debate. I really don' ( Read more... )