Comments on: In Beijing http://global-gal.com/2007/04/19/in-beijing/ China - From the Outside Looking In Thu, 19 Apr 2012 05:18:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: global gal http://global-gal.com/2007/04/19/in-beijing/comment-page-1/#comment-190 global gal Mon, 07 May 2007 08:24:32 +0000 http://global-gal.com/?p=321#comment-190 Doug - thanks for the poem. I love how interesting things come my way via comments! Doug – thanks for the poem. I love how interesting things come my way via comments!

]]> By: global gal http://global-gal.com/2007/04/19/in-beijing/comment-page-1/#comment-194 global gal Mon, 07 May 2007 08:21:05 +0000 http://global-gal.com/?p=321#comment-194 Jon - I know it sounds crazy, and I can't imagine how anyone could have heard what I was saying, but this guy did. What was I saying? Well, I don't want to offend anyone, but I'm pretty sure things like "Jesus" "Holy Sh*t" and along those lines were said. The guy made me laugh because he said he knew I was saying Jesus because he had seen it in American movies. I've gotta be more careful because you never know who is listening! I talk to myself all the time in public here and I always assume no one understands. No more! Jon – I know it sounds crazy, and I can’t imagine how anyone could have heard what I was saying, but this guy did. What was I saying? Well, I don’t want to offend anyone, but I’m pretty sure things like “Jesus” “Holy Sh*t” and along those lines were said. The guy made me laugh because he said he knew I was saying Jesus because he had seen it in American movies. I’ve gotta be more careful because you never know who is listening! I talk to myself all the time in public here and I always assume no one understands. No more!

]]> By: April http://global-gal.com/2007/04/19/in-beijing/comment-page-1/#comment-192 April Wed, 02 May 2007 01:52:35 +0000 http://global-gal.com/?p=321#comment-192 Dear Global Gal, We'd love you to list your expat blog on our new website, to help us build a great resource for all women living overseas. Please take a look at our site at: www.ExpatWomen.com. Thanks, April. Dear Global Gal,

We’d love you to list your expat blog on our new website, to help us build a great resource for all women living overseas.

Please take a look at our site at: http://www.ExpatWomen.com.

Thanks,

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]]> By: Jon http://global-gal.com/2007/04/19/in-beijing/comment-page-1/#comment-193 Jon Thu, 19 Apr 2007 12:51:00 +0000 http://global-gal.com/?p=321#comment-193 Out of curiosity, what qualifies as "muttered... under my breath" if a stranger behind you can understand what you were saying in a foreign language in "mayhem"? :-) Out of curiosity, what qualifies as “muttered… under my breath” if a stranger behind you can understand what you were saying in a foreign language in “mayhem”? :-)

]]> By: Doug http://global-gal.com/2007/04/19/in-beijing/comment-page-1/#comment-191 Doug Thu, 19 Apr 2007 10:44:39 +0000 http://global-gal.com/?p=321#comment-191 What a gift it is to find commiseration with a stranger in mayhem. It would seem that train platforms are always an odd place to be rushing... <b> Train Platform </b> I feel small climbing the stairs to the elevated track stepping over broken ketchup packets french fry wrappers kids' litter dropped by catburglers who steal scenery. Is my train coming? Yet there's a foolish gal who built a house nearby who endures the clickety-clack for me gives me solace, for with the sun at my back my shadow's on her roof, but then to let the sun climb with me the morning clouds do stay away on many days of huff and puff In Spring at last I last until my shadow's on her door Tomorrow I shall be her Sun who crosses streets to knock --- Douglas Gilbert, New York mojoepoe.wordpress.com What a gift it is to find commiseration with a stranger in mayhem. It would seem that train platforms are always an odd place to be rushing…
Train Platform
I feel small climbing the stairs
to the elevated track
stepping over broken ketchup packets
french fry wrappers
kids’ litter dropped by
catburglers who
steal scenery. Is my
train coming?

Yet there’s a foolish gal
who built a house nearby
who endures the clickety-clack for me
gives me solace, for
with the sun at my back
my shadow’s on her roof, but then

to let the sun climb with me
the morning clouds do stay away
on many days of huff and puff

In Spring at last
I last until
my shadow’s on her door

Tomorrow I shall be her Sun
who crosses streets to knock
— Douglas Gilbert, New York
mojoepoe.wordpress.com

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