Today I am going to go visit Yanan. Unfortunately, the donut shop closed down because rent was getting too high, so Yanan had to find another job, and I no longer get to eat donuts every two weeks or so. Now she works in a shopping mall department store selling expensive imported men's shoes from Italy or France or something--Pierre Cardin? It's good for her because she now has coworkers, when before she was often in the donut store alone. (Wow Molly, you are right about my sentence structure being all crazy). One thing I learned from working at Camille's Sandwich Shop in Pittsburgh, is that crappy jobs are ten times crappier when you are there all alone, and actually kind of fun when you have crazy people working next to you.
Last time I visited Yanan at her new job, I got to hang out with the new coworkers too. They couldn't believe I was using my left hand to write characters, and then they told me I held the pen wrong. Well lately I have been practicing writing holding the pen the way they told me to. It's not only more comfortable, but the ink flows better out of my pen. Weird! Here is a strange thing: Chinese people are always shocked by left-handed people because almost no one in China uses their left hand to write. But after the initial shock they will always say, oh but left handed people are very smart. Well if your culture thinks left handed people are smart, why make all kids write with their right hands? Yao? Anyone?
This week is midterms (bleehhhh), and then next week we go to Chengdu in Sichuan for a week. I owe you guys a picture blog--hopefully I'll have some good ones from Chengdu!
Love,
Jen
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Kids are taught to use right hand just because most people use right hand. I think this is influenced by the chinese discipline education.The reason they say left-hand people are smart mainly because they are told left-people practice their right-hemisphere brain more than the right-hand people. Of course,why not all the kids just use left-hand is another story. We dont know the real reason at all or do we care. I was told I should focus on one thing when I do my work since old people told me one heart(brain)can't have best performance while doing two things together.That is why I used to learn chinese chess when I was quite young. However,when I began to learn brain imaging,guess what,humans sometimes could do two things better at the same time than doing a separate thing. A little far from your point,but my answer is there is just no reason:)
If you don't write with right, then you are left with left.
Amazing.
Love,
Dad.
haha, digging the camille's reference. Even if you can't speak english when you come back, maybe your grammar will be better at least? More proper?
OR more, as pertaining to, or similar to, something of a 19th century British manner of writing, which employs, and uses far too many, annoying, commas. Haha I know I'm a weirdo.
Ha yay! My internet began working again on my computer and I found the link to your blog again. Woot Woot.
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