Craig Dodge - Blog

Hello Craig. I am an American living in Ha Noi, Viet Nam, 7 years now, (whew). I also have the same tablet. I love the thing for all the same reasons that you mentioned in your blog. I write for a travel magazine here in Ha Noi. Basically for tourists, trying to get them off the tourist trail and into a more realistic travel mode off the beaten path. The Asus I have found to be tough and dependable with the ICS system nearly flawless. I bring it along religiously, leaving my HP and windows 7 at home on my kitchen table where it belongs. Safely away from the bumpy dusty trails that this country is so famous for. The one thing I've done that maybe you haven't thought of is take my Nook reader, erased the operating system in it and slapped the Android OS on it too. Now I have an even smaller almost pocket sized Android tablet. A better size for the pack and bicycle rides. Cheers.

As a gay couple of five years one of us is a US citizen and the other Costarican. How can we turn words into action. We want to get married and move back to the states. This will not be possible since the federal government will no allow my partner to become a US citizen. So just when you think the US has become progressive in it's thinking we find out that equality under the marriages laws of New York is not real equality. How can we help change the federal laws so that we can get married and my partner who is an engenieer apply for ciitizenship?

This is my favorite topic when it comes to learning English!

My 82 year-old father and I had lunch at Perch Cafe yesterday and loved the atmosphere, sandwiches and dessert. A lot of the other cafes in the area have the typical animal organs in a bowl with noodles so the ham and cheese sandwich and cozy atmosphere were welcome.

What a inspirational 10 commandments this is for a dog. I love it and it was like reading a poem. I currently do not have a dog but it makes me remember the ones I have had.

haha

i still can't match the point of English

What a new title! facilitator!
I extremely agree the 5th paragraph. You are! You are.
Do you paint the illustration by yourself? If yes, you are a genius. It is vivid.
Thanks!

I honestly don't know, because I got mine with the plan. On PCHome, one of the most popular online shopping sites here, I found it for NT$20,900. It seems like a friend of mine bought one without a plan for about that much, but not sure.

Love the phone, though. Love it.

hi craig! my father is going to taiwan... he'll be buying me a htc desire HD just like yours... i just want to ask how much is htc desire HD in taiwan... the one that doesnt have a plan...

thanks in advance!

those things are what i lack of ...

i tried it several times

it's still hard to me to seperate 's' from 'th'

XD really

yap
you're right.

i think i am still in the listening and reading phase

pronunciation is far from me haha

As far as I know, there isn't any place in Taiwan that sells MagicJack, but I can assure you it works just fine. I've used mine here for over 2 years, as have other friends to whom I've recommended it. I bought mine on one of my trips home and brought it back to Taiwan.

Craig,

I just got one for my home in Fort Wayne, IN but it says for use in U.S. only. Do you know where to buy one in Taiwan?

Thanks.

Paul

hey Craig , long time no see !!! i checked pics that you uploaded, that's amazing, thanks for sharing.

have a wonderful rabbit year !!! :D

Hi Craig, I am a teacher of English in Madrid and just wanted to tell you that I often read your blog and use some of the things for my classes. I enjoyed this post about New Year's resolutions and hope you keep posting good stuff.

I read this article this morning and shared with my friends on Facebook with my friends at once. I love the youtube video you linked here a lot. Thanks for everything and wish you, Josh and WeiWei Merry Christmas!!! Have a great time. I shall try my best to keep the Christmas spirit in my mind and in my heart, giving and loving all the time.

it was a long time ago i had written such a formal e-mail to someone

haha

but it is still a nice article.

Jast say hello to you, my dear English teacher!

We are so lucky that we have a fitness center at the basement B1 of our office building. I go there everyday. After exercise, I can take a shower, it's so nice.

I love Cambodia people.
I also want to find some ways to help them .

HIV is actually the virus that causes the disease AIDS

one of my teachers shared about HIV recently
we should know how they get AIDS

some of people are very unfortunate

Facebook has become a new social network we have to build and carefully manage. After reading this, I think we would have very interesting discussion in the class tomorrow night.

ya
maybe friends of mine aren't so much like that, so i don't have that problem now.

fackbook is great
but the way to talk face to face is the most important
everyone should know it ha.

It's a good trip once one year for you. Whatever how far people go who only have one home. It's very happy to spend time with family. My last time went home was 4 months ago and i will go home on next Chines lunar year. :-)

I was there with my friends yesterday afternoon. (One of my friends is their friend and I was your student of Investec in Taipei 101. ^_^)It is really a cosy place with good music, tea and coffee.

oh
long time no chat
because i seldom log in Yahoo
I use MSN now

22 countries
what a n amazing number
maybe one day i could do the same thing like you to play around.

ha ha remember remember me~~~

It sounds like a wonderful traveling.

I feel pity for the people there living in poor conditions.

Hope they can live better in the future.

When I was here ,I was practicing.

Totally agree. Both of the websites you said above are very good stuffs to learn English.

that's what taiwan is ~
when you are driving, not only not to hit others but also have to keep others from hitting you~

Well,my English is poor,but I still want to say something.
I think you are the coolest teacher in ChuLin,no one can replace you.
I hope time flies won't make you forget us.
We miss you and we love you,too!

I forgot my password ...



If your teacher is not giving you anything to read.......

You can read THIS BLOG!!!

i think it's a very good idea to learn how to read ~
maybe i should take good care of my blog too~ha
i have a long time to not write on my blog after i started to build my country
online games are always a trouble~ha

I'm wondering whether you still remember me or not. I'm Abby, your student who used to be in Chu-Lin.
How do you do these days? We graduated from junior high school! Senior high is waiting for us!

Sorry, but I forget my password so I didn't log in.

Cola, a podcast is:

podcast definition

Any series of audio files that can be downloaded from the Internet, often released on some regular schedule, e.g. daily or weekly.
Podcasts are named after Apple Computer, Inc.'s iPod portable audio players, though most podcasts are in MP3 format and so can be played on virtually any modern audio player.

A very good website with podcasts for English learning is:
ESLPod.com

^.^

1) I have no craze for iphone
but I love the two bears...

2) honestly, i watched the Chinese subtitle version because its "terms" are just too hard for me...

3) My chulin coworker sitting in front of me owns an iphone, and he shows off to me now and then...somehow I really want him to watch the clip and your article, but i don't think a snob like him would admit his mistake buying this expensive useless device.

After the Entrance exam,count me in...

Only a year to go...then it's our turn~
Will you come to our graduation ceremony? I hope so...HA! I can't even imagine how many tears I'll shed at that moment...^^

That's definitely true!!!
I felt so worried that I will lose my English speaking ability since I didn't speak often to any other people.
The only thing I can make up for it is listen to MP3.

By the way,what's podcast?

Ah~ha!I got you!
Sorry,I didn't know that you had a blog before...

It's great that I've found it,so we can exchange good thoughts easily some day in the future.

How could I believe that I am a senior3 student now? After a whole week for review tests,I was totally K.O. since I didn't get ready for it. From now on, I 'll stick to it and won't give up.Please cheer me on^0^ Recently,we've moved to a new classroom which was in the forth floor,located at the new building.

By the way,may I ask for help if I have a problem?

I totally agree that language is a tool that people can use to communicate with. But, do we emphasize communicating or grammar? I prefer learning English by communicating, but, our teacher told me that we should wrong grammar even they understand what we want to say. We may not speak English fluently if we emphasize grammar too much. I think the best way to learn English is keep through speaking and listening. I hope i can find my way to do it.

oh
i am very happy to read this article.

we all did this great job
all of us

and we all are happy!

ha
We shall never be wimp up

hey Craig

It's been a long time since my last english writing in your enlish conversation class, hey, we missed you a lot, the things you taught, conversation, are different than the things our english teachers taught us, which I think are more useful, and much important, the happiness you gave us, the time we spent together, the only one class every week is very important to us, the things you taught was just normal conversation with us but the things seems normal are what we really need in english speeking, grammer? writing? personally, I think we need only english conversation, in conversation we can learn english, but we can't learn in those two.

Thank you for what you taught and the happiness, will you go back to Chu-Lin after we are leaving the school?
cause we will miss you

hey, don't forget us !

c ya and we'll meet again someday in Chu-Lin.

we will never forget you too
although you just teach us few years
what you give to us is much more than any teachers in chulin

you not only teach us english and things about life but also how to think optimistic thoes are more important the the shit school teach~ha

hi~ when will you finish the construction?
have a long time doesn't come
looking forward to see the new blog