Tuesday, May 20, 2003
Life in China -- courtesy of John Pasden of www.sinosplice.com

For reasons perhaps best left unexplained, I found the page below to be completely hilarious. The pictures were taken from the "ready.gov" anti-terrorism preparation site in the U.S., and adapted to local conditions by John Pasden, an American teaching English at Zhejiang University in beautiful Hangzhou.

http://www.sinosplice.com/china/pictguide.html

Given the way the pictures were chosen, I found the entry corresponding to

"If you're coming to China, I hope you're not too tall. That can be inconvenient sometimes."

particularly hilarious.

This may be particularly appealing to me because of the steady diet of the China Radio International English service I've been hearing, which is full of happy-talk news. My wife actually likes the fact that all of the news is positive, but I find it kind of tiring having to filter it all and figure out what might really be going on. You can listen for yourself, by going here

http://www.crienglish.com/news/

and clicking on the "Online Radio" icon.


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