Jeffery's Room

In class we studied indirect speech and how people do not really say what they mean. I thought about it for a bit after reading the passage and I wondered if there are any weird sayings and indirect speech in my own culture and there definitely is. Over the years my Chinese has declined, but there are still things I notice that do not necessarily make sense when they are taken directly. For example, when someone wants to say that they are “almost there” or “immediately” they would say “马上“(ma shang) . If you directly translate that, it means “on horse” which does not make sense directly. People are not actually on horses when they are trying to get somewhere fast, but it does imply that something or someone is coming fast. Although, I am not sure if this is a cultural saying or it's just language from old China when people actually used horses. This saying is so widely used that I do not know any other phrase for the word “almost” or “immediately”. “马上“(ma shang)   is the only phra...

  This Blog post is going to be more of my stream of thought, but I think it will be interesting to read. We read “I Want a Wife” in class. It was about society's unrealistic expectations on women and wives and how they should do everything to support their husband’s goals. Society expects women to clean the house, cook, stay home and take care of the kids, take care of their partner's hygiene and cut their hair. After reading the passage, I had some self reflection and I realized how spoiled I am. Although I do some of the house chores(like vacuuming the house and cleaning the bathroom), I realized that if I had to live alone, I would not be able to survive. I do not know how to cook(unless you count ramen or like throwing rice into a cooker cooking), I do not how to work a washing machine, I can kind of fold clothes, I do not regularly do the dishes, I barely know how to find good outfit for the day, and if my mom did not force me to let her cut my hair, my hair would be in ...

Today I will be answering question 2 for my blog post.  I do feel like society as a whole wants men to show less emotion and be protectors. I think it's something that men all struggle with. In my close group of guy friends, even though we are very close, we rarely ever have a real heart to heart. Most of our conversations include screaming, making sexual jokes, talking about our fantasy team’s performances yesterday, clowning a rappers lyrics. And while these things are great, it's never about our true emotions and we are all pressured by each other to always be happy or funny in an unhealthy way. This is why I find it very hard to tell the people I’m closest to my raw emotions. If something terrible happens to me, I have to bottle it up and deal with it myself. I feel like I would ruin some sort of group dynamic, but I bet my friends all feel the same as well. Everyone deals with negative emotions. It's a part of everyday life.  One day, I mustered the courage to talk to ...