Day: April 18, 2011

Chinese Corner: Foreign Teacher

I’m no Chinese expert by any means. But what I love about the Chinese language is its simplicity – in some ways. There are many words in the Chinese language that you can already guess, simply because they just put two descriptive words together to form this new word. So, today, I’m introducing a new corner of my website: the Chinese Corner. Every week (I hope), I’ll post one new word for you to learn about, and who knows – you might end up a Chinese expert after all! Since I’m a foreign teacher here in China, how about I start with a very simple word that lends itself to be the first ever word in my Chinese Corner: Lesson 1: Foreign Teacher   外教 – wài jiào   wai = outside; in addition; foreign; external jiao = to teach waijiao = outside teach = foreign teacher (If you can’t see the Chinese characters, because you don’t have any Asian languages installed on your computer, don’t worry about it.)

Monday Highlight: Fancy Pants

I haven’t done any digital scrapbook kits in a while now in the Monday Highlight, so how about we talk about a kit that was released just a few weeks ago: “Fancy Pants” by Traci Reed. Fancy Pants has a great color scheme that works both for masculine and feminine layouts, which makes it really versatile. The kit also comes with a great number of unique elements, and I especially love the handwritten pieces of word-art. On top of that, I love everything banner-like (others call it bunting), and Traci’s kit includes a very fun, unique banner. Fancy Pants also comes with a fun plastic alpha in four different colors. This last weekend, I just played around with this kit for a bit, and look what I got in the end: