老外在中国：我在中国的KFC过感恩节_BEC初级作文

老外在中国：我在中国的KFC过感恩节

"Do you like Chinese food?" "Can you use chopsticks?"

“你喜欢中国菜吗？” “你会用筷子吗？”

Yes, and yes—we have them at home.

喜欢啊，会用筷子呢——我家里就有。

"What is your favorite Chinese city?"

“你最喜欢中国的哪个城市？”

"Uh, Lianyungang." Except for a few hours in Beijing on the day I arrived, I hadn't been anywhere else.

“嗯，连云港。”其实，除了刚到那天在北京停留过几个小时，我还没去过其他地方。

"Really?"

“真的吗？”

Within a couple of months, the euphoria of being in China had worn off, and I found myself settling into a routine. During the day, there was work: I taught two hour-long classes of 15 and 16-year-olds, and, because I assigned no homework and rarely gave out tests, spent the afternoons either reading or making a halfhearted attempt to learn Chinese.

几个月后，在中国生活的兴奋感消退了，我发现自己安稳了下来。白天我要工作——给中学生上2个小时的英语课，因为我不布置作业，也很少安排考试，所以下午我就用来读书或三心二意学点中文。

At night, after dinner at my school's canteen, I'd walk to a store down the street and buy a pirated DVD, which usually cost about 50 cents. The quality of the copies were variable—sometimes, they were filmed with a camcorder inside a cinema, which worked okay until someone stood up in front—but watching them kept me from having to deal with my Chinese reality. I was desperately homesick. "Just get through this year," I told myself. "Then you can leave."