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A slice of my life in the bubble
Created on 2006-05-24 10:08:27 (#10304427), last updated 2009-02-01
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Basic Info| Name: | alishainchina |
|---|---|
| Birthdate: | 03-13 |
| Location: | United States |
BioI started out in China (as many do) as an English teacher. With proof of my high school graduation and university degree, the government was very happy to give me an ID card that said I was a foreign expert. As a fresh graduate, it felt great to have somebody to be so confident of my ability. Now I work for an English textbook company (in China), though, and I am simply an alien and not an expert. This has been a strange realisation for me because we all assume that we know our mother tongues fairly well. However, when I realised that I actually don't know my mother tongue very well, it made me think that maybe I really don't know so much at all. And now that I'm back in the USA, it hasn't gotten any better.
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arguing with taxi drivers, audiobooks, avoiding my trash-collecting neighbour, bargaining, being a lady, biscuits, books, bouncing souls, breslov, brie, button down, candles, cartilage piercing, china, chinese punk, chopsticks, climbing walls, coffee, cooking, cotton candy pink wig, dark room to sleep, denim, dictionary, dvdwatchbag, editing, enigmas, expat, eye mask, feminism, fish, flashing my foreign id, flats, fog, french dance music, fresh mint, friday the 13th, getting through traffic alive, graffiti, having a tailor, high heels, home made, indulging in expat life, international phone calls, jan beatty, jazz, knitting, kosher, lace, laundry out the window, left handed, listening to music, listening to street conversations, live music, loud, love of words, manicure, mao zedong, meditating, mint, moon cake, mop tree, mp3, nature loving, not biking, not spitting, people watching, philly, pittsburgh, poetry, public transport, publishing, punk, pushing through crowds, puzzles, rain, reading, rock, safety, sarcasm, scarves, shabbat, shanghai, shoes, shopping, silk, sing out of key, skulls, smsing, snow, spa, stockings, suzhou, sweets, sylvia plath, talking to stray cats, tea, the cure, tikkun olam, tony hoagland, underground, velvet, wai mao, walking, weekend meat, wei renmin fuwu, wit, wool, working overtime, writing
Schools:
Central High School - Philadelphia, PA (1995 - 1999)University of Pittsburgh - Pittsburgh, PA (1999 - 2003)
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