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双语文章—老外在中国 In the late summer of 2004, days before I was to move to Lianyungang, China, to teach English for a year, I spoke to an acquaintance who had spent a few years in the country. 2004年夏末，也就是在去中国连云港任教一年英语的几天前，我向一位在中国呆过几年的朋友了解情况。 Holidays are hard, he said. But oddly, not so much Christmas. Christmas isnt that bad. Its Thanksgiving thats hard. 他说：“那里假期很难熬，不过奇怪的是，圣诞节倒也还行，糟糕的是感恩节。” At the time, surviving the holidays was the least of my worries. I was moving to a country where I didnt speak the language, understand the culture, or know the history, in order to do a job that I had never done