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Gonzo Traveler: Man Versus Animal In New Caledonia

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Gonzo Traveler: Man Versus Animal In New Caledonia

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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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How To Learn Chinese: Student Versus Teacher

How To Learn Chinese: Student Versus Teacher

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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