Blogs
- Shares Leaving DioEnglish
- Hello one and all. Unfortunately I have decided I am going to leave the site. I don't post updates nearly frequently enough and I only come on here to see if I have new messages. Then I lurk. This is not beneficial. I would like to perhaps create a Chine blog because my Chinese is atrocious since I ...
- Shares Creative Writing, Round 2
- For today's exercise I chose #3 off of the list at creativewritingprompts.com . It said to use a dictionary but instead I went to a website that lists SAT words (a standardized test that high school students have to take here in the US before they go to college) and picked 10 random ones from there. ...
- Shares Creative Writing Exercise
- Because I want to make myself a better writer. Additionally, some of my friends and I are doing creative exercises along with reading interpretations for the summer. We got started a little late, I'll actually be leaving to France in a little over a month. This prompt comes from creativewritingprom ...
- Shares Website posted: Sichuan Opera （川剧）
- I'll keep this short. My website is up! I know I said I would do it over Sichuan culture but I got lazy so it's only on the opera. (sorry guys no 四川菜, I'll have to do that next time, haha) If you want to browse through it the url is right here: http://starrhia.wix.com/suzanneinsichuan#!home/ma ...
- Shares Summa time
- We're just going to ignore how long it's been since I've been here and jump right into the good stuff. Everyone agreed? Motion passed. Hokay. Sooo right now I'm at grad school! And it's free! (woooo!) Well, this part of it anyway. And I have only two classes I have to take for three weeks. Problem ...
- Shares Given the choice to look forever young ...
- ... would you take it? I'm slightly switching tactics, since my Lolita review wasn't going over too well I thought I'd change to ... Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray! Everyone know this story? I'll do a brief summary. There's this young pretty boy (Dorian), he gets some thoughts in his hea ...
- Shares Lolita analysis, part 2
- I don't know if I've mentioned this before but this was actually my third time reading Lolita through. Why do I like the book so much, given the subject material? I love character complexity and ambiguity and I believe that Nabokov uses the English language especially masterfully to express the acti ...
- Shares Lolita analysis, part 1
- Okay! I've finished Lolita again and here are those discussion questions that I promised. Anyone else who has read the book is free to answer them too and remember, I got them from here: http://www.shmoop.com/lolita/questions.html if you want to check it out! 1. How does the Foreword influence our ...
- Shares Summer reading
- I know this primarily appears to be a travel blog but as I'm not currently traveling, for the summer I think I'll make it into a literature one! The book I'll start off with is Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov, published in the mid-to-late 1950s. It's considered to be a "modern classic" of the English lan ...
- Shares FRANCE.
- I got the good news today--I was accepted into the French Teaching Assistant Program (sponsored by the French government) and I'm going to be going to France this fall!! Specifically north France in Rennes, which is the capital of the region Bretagne. (in the US we know it as Brittany) And it keep ...
