by Sander Tams
17. April 2010 19:02
I didn't write lately. Again. I guess I do this when I'm not in a very good mood, and have been in a not-so-good mood quite often lately.
Still ought to write something, so I'll just dump this short chat I had with a previous classmate from KaiNan. Mind you I'm using a bit of experimental Chinese and very simple English. I just saw he was online (on facebook, woah!) and thought: Damn I really miss this guy for some reason. Those days were wacky days, and although I didn't really feel exactly satisfied with the way things was with the school, it was a nice time where I got to try a very wacky way of life. I kind of miss wacky.
Anyway, it's short:
| 23:43 Sander | Onion! 很久看不見. |
| 23:48 蔥 | HI (long)? time no se
Ha |
| 23:48 Sander | Oh. Good. |
| 23:49 蔥 | Recently? |
| 23:50 Sander | I often think about you (你們) Kainan students. Because I never really said goodbye. |
| 23:51 Sander | 你的生活好嗎? |
| 23:55 蔥 | Also good |
| 00:21 Sander | do you have test soon?
in Kainan? |
| 00:27蔥 | Already finished |
| 00:27Sander | oh, that's good
In my school we have tests so people are very busy. Even I have test now. |
| 00:30蔥 | You must examine? |
| 00:30Sander | yes
but only for some of the classes |
| 00:33蔥 | Cannot be very difficult? |
| 00:33Sander | no, I don't think so.
Because I will just take some tests in English. |
| 00:37Sander | 但是，我的中文有進步很多. 可是,我寫很慢. |
| 00:57蔥 | That refuels! I must sleep |
| 00:58Sander | me too
晚安 |
If you don't understand half of what I am saying, then you can try and use a translator. Should even the English be nonsense, then perhaps translating it into Chinese and back again will yield better results? I highly doubt so, though. This guy really works hard for learning English and he's really mr. nice guy to the fullest extend I can imagine. With more people like him, I'm pretty sure everyone would be a little happier. There should be lots of those here, actually. Too bad society doesn't give a damn about such peoples qualities.
by Sander Tams
10. November 2009 17:13
Today some students at my Taiwanese school showed me to the marine lab where they keep all their experiments with animals.
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KaiNan has been a bit it in the news around these parts lately because of their success in breeding these little animals. It's called an Axolotl and is on the verge of extinction.
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Originally this creature was abundant in Mexico, but due to pollution and invasion by alien species it's now seldom spotted living wild anymore. They mainly live in laboratories and therefore it's now quite easy to find a lot of different species together.
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Actually it's closely related to the salamander, but it's not really exactly the same still as this one has many peculiar traits. First of all is it's very noticeable external gills. These are the six little "red haired" extremities around their heads. Because of this, they also go under the name six horned dinosaurs (六角恐龍) in Chinese.
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