Today, just before heading for our lunch break, one of the Chinese English teachers approached me and asked if I was busy after lunch, and if not, would I go to the local radio station and record an advertisement for our school? Um, heck yes.
So directly after lunch we trooped on over to the local station where I was asked to simply say (in English) the full name of our school.
I’m embarrassed to say that it took several tries and that at one point they were considering just having the Chinese English teacher say it instead. But they realized that my accent would almost definitely work at bringing in curious people. Apparently my first several tries weren’t enthusiastic enough, were too quiet, I didn’t sound happy, or they wanted me to sound younger (what? Really? You want a twenty year-old teacher to sound younger?). So finally I refused the chair and did it standing up in only one take.
Afterwards, though, they asked if I’d be willing to do an interview for the local news (or it maybe a commercial, I’m not entirely sure), I’d most likely just have to talk about some aspects of my Canadian life and talk a bit about teaching in China. Naturally, I said yes.
Anything for my fans.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
1 comment:
lol You are a natural born celebrity!!
I wonder how you are going to act when you get back to Canada... When you're back to being normal like the rest of us :P
Post a Comment