Happy Lunar New Year!
Disclaimer: This post contains Amazon affiliate links. Did you know that 1/6 of the world celebrates Chinese New Year? And that it is the world’s biggest human migration as workers travel home to their families?…
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Cultural Encounters of the Speech Kind
Disclaimer: This post contains affiliate links. Just as the confetti of New Year’s Eve is settling down and teachers are pulling out the hearts and roses for February, I am pulling out the red. And…
It’s a Conspiracy
This is 12/25 in the United States. Gifts, gifts, gifts. Money, money, money. I want video games. I want sweets. I want bigger. Better. This is 12/25 in Cambodia. I want water. I want a…
caucASIAN
One lunch in college, I sat with my friends in my university cafeteria and listened to my friend comment, “Look. Everyone here is Asian.” Several seconds later, she looked at me and added, “Oops!I forgot…
Learning culture through celebrations
I have tried to teach my children through experiential learning. This is quite ironic since my hope for graduate school was to find a program that required only book learning, no hands-on. Ha! God laughs…
D is for Dragon Dance
Disclaimer: This post contains Amazon affiliate links. D is for Dragon Dance Gong Hay Fat Choy! In celebration of this holiday, read through D is for Dragon Dance, a Chinese New Year’s Alphabet. Speech…
Tree of Cranes
Disclaimer: This post contains Amazon affiliate links. Do you remember your very first Christmas? Me neither. But what if you did? What sights, smells, emotions might you attribute to that first magical day? In Tree…
Go To Sleep Gecko
Disclaimer: This post contains Amazon affiliate links. My husband recently checked Go To Sleep Gecko out of the library to appease my “get the kids some new books now!” demands. He did well. Go…