I was doing some volunteer work at an 8th grade career fair a couple of months ago and I received a packet of thank you cards from the organizers. I was working for the Center for East Asian Studies and I was trying to promote the study of East Asian languages. Here are some excerpts from the cards:
“Dear Asian Travel Guy (Michael Bahn?),…
Nihao,…
Sincerely, Yusuke Hirohama [Chris A.]““Ni-Hao Azn person who travels around Asia guy, (Michael Banh),
…Even though I am vietnamese, I still want to go around Asia and see the sites…. Hope ta see ya in Asia!… (ban cua toi la be-de, no muon lam sexy time chung vay chu)” [I can't read Vietnamese that well, but I think it translates into "My friend is gay" and then the last part is something about wanting to do sexy time with me??]“…When you wrote my name in Arabic & spoke some words, i became very interested in different languages & countries.” Note: I don’t speak or write Arabic.
