{"id":851,"date":"2009-09-24T16:02:48","date_gmt":"2009-09-24T23:02:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/?p=851"},"modified":"2009-09-24T16:02:48","modified_gmt":"2009-09-24T23:02:48","slug":"more-ddp-fun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/2009\/09\/24\/more-ddp-fun\/","title":{"rendered":"More DDP Fun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Partially (but not entirely) because of my my <a href=\"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/2009\/08\/17\/ddp-kayaking\/\">last adventure<\/a> with the DDP (Chinese Dual Degree) students, I have started to feel a certain affection for the group.<\/p>\n<p>Today there was a welcome reception for the ones that just got here this semester.  They were a surprisingly talkative group (considering we were talking in English), and it was nice to have the chance to welcome them.<\/p>\n<p>A common question from me: &#8220;What have you done in Vancouver so far?&#8221;  Most are pretty new and haven&#8217;t done much.  But one answer stood out:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nDDP Girl: &#8220;We have gone to UBC, and we went to the beach.&#8221;<br \/>\nMe: &#8220;Oh, which beach?&#8221; (grabs for convenient map of Vancouver)<br \/>\nDDP Girl: &#8220;The one *giggle* at UBC.&#8221;<br \/>\nMe: &#8220;&#8230; oh!&#8221;  [For those not in the know, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wreck_Beach\">Wreck Beach<\/a> is the local clothing-optional beach.]\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The implication was that they just saw a sign for &#8220;beach&#8221; and thought they&#8217;d have a look.  That&#8217;d be quite a shock: five minutes off the plane from China, and being surprised by some fat naked white guy walking down the beach.<\/p>\n<p>So, that was the funniest image I had had in my head for a while.<\/p>\n<p>Then five minutes later:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nDifferent DDP Girl: &#8220;Oh, I haven&#8217;t done much yet, but I want to go to UBC and the beach.&#8221;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You know that feeling when you&#8217;re trying not to laugh, but can&#8217;t even look like you&#8217;re trying not to laugh?  I swear pulled a muscle in my face to keep from smiling.<\/p>\n<p>Apparently Wreck Beach is the first stop for DDP students showing up in Vancouver.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Partially (but not entirely) because of my my last adventure with the DDP (Chinese Dual Degree) students, I have started to feel a certain affection for the group. Today there was a welcome reception for the ones that just got here this semester. They were a surprisingly talkative group (considering we were talking in English), [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-teaching","category-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=851"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/851\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":856,"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/851\/revisions\/856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}