November 30th, 2008
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“We’ve got a 6-gauge shotgun, a bottle of vodka, a six pack of beer, 60GB of music and a new 4×4 with fat treads. At this point, we’re practically a force of nature.”
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New Caledonia is a cigar-shaped island in the South Pacific, a colony of France, with a population of about 250,000.
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November 7th, 2007
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During my first class teaching English in Taiwan, my student Christine came up to me with an armload of Chinese books, and hand-calligraphed New Year??s scrolls.
She also provided an invitation for language exchange and a smile, which can only be described as the Cheshire cat??s official welcome to Asia.
Cats are lucky in Taiwan, I??d heard, and I now believe this to be true - along with the idea that relationships proceed a lot more quickly when you speak each other??s languages.
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