What a teacher said long ago…

January 12th, 2007

I remember what my elementary/middle school band teacher
told me a long time ago. A rather strange man, if I say so now (he would say and do things like pranks that any adult shouldn’t say to impressionable youth, let alone a teacher… oh well.) One wierd thing he told me was that the Chinese men would be coming over to the US, UK, and other Western countries in droves because they were letting these countries adopt all the Chinese girls because of the one child policy and the cultural preference to males. Now it seems that the Chiniese are seeing the scope of this problem.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/6254763.stm

This teacher had just married and adopted a little girl from China- so he saw first hand… boy, what a culture/dempgraphic shock that will be for both China and all the countries where  so many girls were sent.

Jaywalking in foreign countries

January 11th, 2007

BBC just did a spot in foreign jaywalking

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/6251431.stm

What they don’t know is the in Serbia, if you don’t jaywalk you’ll never get across, or all your friends will elave you behind, all lost and confused (This has happened before)… but it’s also VERY dangerous. Almost once a month I hear someone say they almost got ran over- in the cross walk (or zebra, as they call it). Crazy crazy…