Book cover

They say not to judge a book by its cover. I suppose the same holds true for teachers. My Chinese teachers, I've noticed, have worn the same outfits every day this week. This is not to say anything about their character, and they are certainly good teachers. But I remember I used to chuckle at the Chemistry professor I had at university that wore sneakers stained green from mowing his lawn. Now I must concede, one should not judge a teacher by its cover. Nevertheless, my main teacher Wang Laoshi, wears a black sweater with a yellow stripe going across it. It is sort of like the opposite of a Charlie Brown shirt. Which is sort of ironic because sometimes Chinese sounds a lot like the teacher in the Peanuts cartoons: Woah wah wah woah wah wah wah.