Crazy English Saves the World
We all knew this day was coming, but it still rocked the boat. One of the three foreign teachers at World English just left. This created a huge hole that the other two teachers (myself included) are scrambling to fill. In other words, I’ve had to sacrifice portions of my free days to come back in and teach.
But I’m not sure who to be bitter with: the teacher for leaving like he said he would, or the school for being ill-prepared. Things still worked out, I was just angry, because it interfered with plans I had already made. And if you know me at all, you know I have a serious weakness for chocolate chip cookies. But… that’s entirely irrelevant to what I was going to say. If you know me at all, you know I like to make plans. There’s nothing I hate more than having nothing to do on a free day. Except getting struck by lightening.
So to help with the onslaught of free talks I have coming up, I broke down and bought one of my favorite books: Blurt Out by Li Yang. Li Yang actually owns a very well-known brand called Crazy English, but his Blurt Out series isn’t as popular as his other works. And that’s too bad, because there are some great, classic American phrases in it. Things like:
Do you think I’m stupid?
Be a man!
I can’t stand it when…
I don’t have a clue.
I couldn’t care less.
… and many, many more!
If this is starting to sound like an advertisement, well… it is. I think very highly of this book, because it saved my life back when I taught in Wuwei, and it’s saving my life again in Changzhou. Seriously, if you’re an ESL student, you need to check it out. And if you’re not an ESL student… hey, how’s the weather today?
Since I figured out how to switch GIMP on the school computer from Chinese to English, I can also finally post a picture of my daily dofunao:
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Responses to “Crazy English Saves the World”
Comments RSS Feed – All CommentsPollytorg — 21 August 2008 @ 4:57 am
That looks really sick Clark. I’d rather have the chocolate chip cookies.
Pollytorg — 21 August 2008 @ 5:06 am
Okay, I looked up dofunao, and the first two sites to come up were your blog. The third one said it was tofu, as I suspected. If you added some soy sauce and a few vegetables, I would defintely eat that. But probably for lunch, not breakfast.
JR — 21 August 2008 @ 7:45 am
“Come on Clark, be a man” … One of my favorite things one of our students said. That dofunao does look pretty sick.
Lance — 21 August 2008 @ 7:07 pm
That’s pretty cool about Google considering you The Source on dofunao. Good work. It does look disgusting, though.
And nice GIMP shoutout. I love that program!
Dad — 26 August 2008 @ 10:19 pm
After looking at the two pictures, I would rather eat the book.
Clark — 26 August 2008 @ 11:22 pm
You people don’t know what you’re missing.
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