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Direction By Mercy
by LJ Zhou 09/28/2014Neighborhood: Long Island City, Lower East Side, Queens
“Here, going? Here, here!” The woman says to the drive and points to the paper in her hand. “This bus is going to Rockaway Beach!” The bus driver looks at her and answers. The woman doesn’t seem to understand and starts to talk to the bus driver in Chinese. The bus driver looks puzzled and shakes […]
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 […]