2013 May, I just graduated from SAIC, and had to get a job to support myself. As a foreigner, who doesn’t have any “practical profession degree”, there are probably two kinds of jobs that I could get: Working in exotic/oriental Asian-type restaurants or teaching Chinese, and I had done both of them in the past year.

 

Anyway, this video is about my first teaching-Chinese-related-job interview for a famous kid’s language chain tutoring center “Langu*** S**r”, they sent me a sample-lesson video and asked me to do it in Chinese. Basically what I had to do was introducing myself a little bit, and teaching an invisible boy, whose name was Charlie, how to speak puppy, kitten, and duckling in Mandarin, then to play a game about “finding the puppy” with him.

 

For me, this video is more like an annotation of my other project “GHOST”, both of them reflect my reality as a foreigner, but in very different perspectives, and I would like my audience to juxtapose them. Chronologically, this footage also works well as a representative final chapter about my life in Chicago for the past three years. Most important of all, unlike showing other documentations that I have power to control how I present myself, showing self-images that really bothers and frustrates me in public is a whole new experience, like a new experience of living in reality.