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Why Won’t You Learn Chinese?
by Brenda Lin 02/01/2003Neighborhood: Chinatown
For a few months while I was writing my graduate thesis, I was a classroom instructor at an after-school program at P.S. 2, on the northeastern edge of Chinatown. From my apartment on the lower East side, I would walk south on Essex Street to go to work. It was a walk through New York’s [...]
What mean ‘Yo’?
by Debbie Nathan 09/08/2002Neighborhood: Bronx
When I first working as ESL teacher twenty year ago I was be a little nervious. In that time I am more young than now, and when I turn around to writing at blackboard, I am think the students looking at my ass. But that a long time ago. Now my ass she is nothing [...]
