#Fire drill! #China style! 📣 Because we take your security seriously – we use real #smoke bombs to stink the building up, train you to go through usually locked doors, and ask that you guess when a fire starts because we have no smoke alarms. But you know, security! At least now maybe they’ll stop padlocking all the outside doors at night 😂
As always, this lesson is not intended to be professional advice. This is simply lesson material for ESL students in Business, Economics, and Finance classes. Posted here for their use or for helping other students.
Here are some helpful Business Symbols (标志) you should be familiar with for Business English! Although there are some more common than these, you should memorize these symbols because they are the currencies for Asia.
| ৳ | Bangladesh (孟加拉国) | Taka (BDT) |
| Nu | Bhutan (不丹) | Ngultrum (BTN) |
| ៛ | Cambodia (柬埔寨) | Riel (KHR) |
| ¥ | China (中国) | Yuan or Renminbi (CNY) |
| ¥ | Japan (日本) | Yen (JPY) |
| ₹ | India (印度) | Rupee (INR) |
| Rp | Indonesia (印度尼西亚) | Rupiah (IDR) |
| ₭ | Laos (老挝) | Kip (LAK) |
| RM | Malaysia (马来西亚) | Ringgit (RM) |
| Rf | Maldives (马尔代夫) | Rufiyaa (MVR) |
| ₮ | Mongolia (蒙古) | Tögrög (MNT) |
| K | Myanmar (缅甸) | Kyat (BMK) |
| रू | Nepal (尼泊尔) | Rupee (NPR) |
| ₱ | Philippines (菲律宾) | Peso (PHP) |
| ₽ | Russia (俄国) | Ruble (RUB) |
| ₩ | South Korea (韩国) | Won (KRW) |
| රු | Sri Lanka (斯里兰卡) | Rupee (LKR) |
| NT$ | Taiwan (台湾) | New Dollar (TWD) |
| ฿ | Thailand (泰国) | Baht (THB) |
| ₫ | Vietnam (越南) | Dong (VND) |
You know, it says #rainbow but for some strange reason I’m seeing #cow . . . . On a t-shirt for #girls Hmmmm 😂 Life in #China means living with random #words on your #clothes 😜
For the best mom ever!
Happy Mothers Day everyone!
Mom, Mother, Mama, Ma, 妈妈, Mommy – whatever you call her, if you got a good one, say thanks. Small piece of advice – despite stereotypes, not every mother is a good mother. There are many out there who aren’t that awesome. If you got a good one, appreciate her. Let her know how grateful you are that she cared for you. She doesn’t have to – everything she’s done for you, it’s because she loved you. So just take some time and honor her for that!
For the rest of you, if you have someone out there who acted as a mom-stand-in for you, say thanks to them too. Even if it was your single father, grandmother, step-mother, foster mother, friend, or just a great adult. Tell them how much that care meant to you.
These people are important in our lives – it’s important for us to show it!
Happy Mother’s Day! ❤
😂 Travel #Miscommunication – I asked a local importer if he could help me find #BBQ sauce, knowing that #HuntsBBQ is in a lot of places here. He said ‘Sure!’ A couple days later, they told me my sauce was in and I came to find this – #KoreanBBQ sauce 😜 Also delicious! Just not what I was thinking. One of the fun parts of travel – We have different views of food vocabulary 😄
My students returned to school today for graduation photos. They do not take classes their final semester, so most already have jobs, internships, etc. Some are already leaving for grad school! I’ve known them for 3 years – love them so much!
In our university, students don’t pick their classes. Everyone in their class takes the same 10-11 classes together each semester. Then they share a dorm. So all 60 students in her class (Finance 1, 2013) have been together pretty much 24 hr a day for 4 years. Making great memories, but sad goodbyes.
If you pay any attention to my blog, you’ll know that for the last 3 years I have been living abroad. The world has many wonderful aspects to it (the mountains are GORGEOUS!), but stable and safe internet service is not one of those. My friend recently took her computer back to the States after a trip abroad to be repaired and the tech guy said she had more than 200 viruses on her system.
So if you aren’t looking to break firewalls and get into sites you shouldn’t be getting into, why would you want a VPN? You can find my list of the pros and cons of a VPN here. In general, I like the security a VPN provides to me, whether at home or abroad. I still use my VPNs in the US, especially if at a public location to avoid the same hacks, viruses, and trojans I worry about while traveling. A VPN can help keep you fast and safe. Sometimes. Depending on which VPN you choose. Also, it sometimes helps me bypass technical issues in the system. For example, my university uses Blackboard, but it does have random glitches that drop it a lot. About 25% of the time, it only works if the teachers use a VPN. When other teachers are down and out, those with a VPN can still get on.
To be honest, I actually go back and forth between Astrill and VyprVPN which runs at about $80/year for 1 device or $100/year for 2 device. Another one recommended to be was ExpressVPN which runs at about $100/year for 1 device and 1 phone/ipad (I’ve never tried them so I have nothing to give you for Express).
After more than 3 years as an Astrill user, I thought I would offer you a report on how it’s going. Continue reading
“She was free in her wildness. She was a wanderess, a drop of free water. She belonged to no man and to no city” ~ Roman Payne
Language Translation
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