baseball, Chinese, etc.

[Kragen Sitaker]

Josh Baugher writes:
> >===== Original Message From kragen-discuss@kragen.dnaco.net =====
> >Went to a baseball game on Friday for the first time.  It was fun, more
> >fun than I expected it to be.  I was a bit depressed near the end,
> >though; I wasn't positively impressed by the fans' sporting nature.
> 
> I've always gotten extremely bored watching baseball on tv, but had a lot of 
> fun during my "real" baseball experience (White Sox vs. Indians, ~`95).

Did you play for the White Sox or the Indians?

:)

Watching brief chunks of games on TV was my only previous experience; I
was surprised by how different the experience was.

> >Been learning written Chinese --- character dictionaries, grammar
> >textbooks, and newspaper articles.  It's going amazingly fast.
> 
> That's great! What are your favorite online chinese resources?

Shodouka is cool, but I haven't really been doing it much online;
usually when I'm online, I'm at work, and when I'm at work, I don't
have time to study Chinese.

>   Chinese Characters and Culture
>   <URLhttp//www.zhongwen.com/>

Thanks!  It doesn't render very well in the browser 'links'.

> I spent about a month in China earlier this summer. It was an amazing 
> experience. It left me fascinated with all things Chinese.

Sounds terrific.  A surprising number of people I knew in Dayton had
spent time living in China.

> Only downfall: I 
> have yet to find any good American Chinese restaurants; or for that matter: 
> even one equivalent to a mediocre _real_ Chinese meal. :-)

My friend A-Mei says the same thing.  She is very happy to be back in
Taiwan and eating real Chinese food again :)

> I'm hoping to take a Chinese course at my university this fall, but the class 
> seems to be maxxed out on enrollment.

Interesting.  Why such interest among your classmates in Chinese?

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