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The Land Where It's Already Tomorrow, Chapter 12: The Name War, an Unfortunate Language Slip-up, an Encounter with a .50 cal. 520 Grandchildren

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The Land Where It's Already Tomorrow, Chapter 12: The Name War, an Unfortunate Language Slip-up, an Encounter with a .50 cal.

October 15th 2006
Chapter 12 It seems that I have a part-time job on my hands, dealing with the English names of my students. The “remediation” is easy, but time-consuming because the Chinese is beyond my (pathetic) Mandarin ability and my colleagues must interpret. My results so far are as follows: 1. Hunk. I explained that maybe “Hank” would be better. 2. Hebe. Even though the student pronounces it ... read more
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Visited Countries Map This is the story of our first year living and working in Hualien County, on the east coast of Taiwan ROC. I am a schoolteacher in the junior high in Guangfu Township, and Lao-puo (Suzanne) studies Chinese at Buddhist Tzu Chi University in Hualien (where we live). My blog is called "The Land Where it's Already Tomorrow". The blog for our second year is now under way at http://www.travelblog.org/Bloggers/Pagan-Dan/... full info
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