Well folks, we’re back in a Ghost town. This past Friday, all of the language school students (finally) left, leaving a 1,500 person sized vacancy on our huge, leafy campus. For (almost) the entire summer, the few, the proud, the English have been surrounded by foreign language school students, so to have them gone feels [...]
Archive for the ‘Language Schools’ Category
From Russian to NPR: Language Study Matters
August 16, 2010
Eggs, Eggs…and More Eggs
August 12, 2010
(A guest post written by sophomore Ada Santiago) “We need more scrambled eggs now, and get another platter of pancakes right after that.” It’s 7:40a.m. I have officially been at work for over two hours, and my day is just getting started. The usual 7:30am students-eating-before-class rush is ten minutes in, and it has yet [...]
The Good Ol’ Days
August 9, 2010
Apparently they used to have pins for English speaking students on campus… Oh the days when we were loved. Nostagically, Audrey
Irony
July 21, 2010
We only wish we would have written this:
Illegal English
July 12, 2010
“In signing this Language Pledge, I agree to use ______________ as my only language of communication while attending the Middlebury Language Schools. I understand that failure to comply with this Pledge may result in my expulsion from the School without credit or refund.” This is the language pledge that all students at the Middlebury Language [...]
Lost in Translation
July 2, 2010
As mentioned before, Cody and I have a good friend, Nial, who is currently studying at Middlebury’s Chinese Language School. He wanted to write a blog post for us, detailing his experience thus far with language schools. However, it had to be in Chinese. Therefore, I give you the Google-translated version of Nial’s saga: You! My [...]
Close Encounters of the 3rd Kind
July 1, 2010
For the past few days, I have had many strange encounters with Language School students. When relaying some of these tales to my beloved friend R. Kelly (better known as Ryan Kellett), he cleverly told me to name the title of this blog post “Close encounters of the 3rd kind.” I decided to humor him, [...]
妵澳李’s Adventures in Chinese
June 18, 2010
I have a new name: 妵澳李. Can’t read that? Neither can I. But that is my new Chinese name, given to me by my friend Nial Rele, who is attending the Chinese School here this summer. He assures me that the individual characters mean: (respectively) beautiful, bay, plum; and is pronounced (in pinyin) tǒu ào [...]
欢迎, 歓迎, Приветствовать
June 11, 2010
They’ve arrived! After weeks of feeling like a ghost-town, the Middlebury campus is now abuzz with future Chinese, Japanese, and Russian Language School students. Working in Axinn all day, at the “Computing” station of the Welcoming Center, gave me the chance to interact with a lot of the new students. I was surprised at how [...]
