Perspective

My students had their first assignment due last week. It was an annotation assignment (you'd be surprised at how many college students do not know how to annotate). I'm grading along and I come to this:

Yes, that would be an English word with Chinese characters above it. And then there's another one.

And I suddenly realize that my reading assignments are very difficult for my student from Taiwan.

Not only does he have to read them and annotate them, but he has to understand them first, which means writing the Chinese translation for the unfamiliar English word.

So, was studying hard for you last night?