[EDLING:1862] China: "Cultural shock" for teachers, students

Francis M. Hult fmhult at DOLPHIN.UPENN.EDU
Tue Sep 12 13:40:06 UTC 2006


China View

"Cultural shock" for teachers, students

by Li Huizi, Wu Chen, Yu Wenjing      

    BEIJING, Sept. 11 (Xinhua) -- As a teacher of journalism and English, 
Joseph Bosco didn't expect that sometimes he also had to teach dating skills. 

    But when the president of the students' union, a handsome guy in his 
senior year, one day approached him hoping to know "how to ask a girl out," 
the former American journalist and writer now teaching at Beijing Foreign 
Studies University, felt obliged to answer the young man's urgent call. 

Read the story here:
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2006-09/11/content_5076249.htm



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