ext_74123 ([identity profile] bridge-carson.livejournal.com) wrote in [community profile] fandomhigh2007-01-09 10:43 pm
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Library [01/10]

Bridge bounces in to the library with coffee, excited to be back for the first time since break!
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[identity profile] bridge-carson.livejournal.com 2007-01-10 05:43 pm (UTC)(link)
"Absolutely!" Bridge gives Katara a thumbs up.

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[identity profile] southernbender.livejournal.com 2007-01-10 05:46 pm (UTC)(link)
Reassured, she grinned at him. "Your language is funny to me. I can't read the letters at all. Walter said to come to the library and I might be able to find a book to help?"

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[identity profile] bridge-carson.livejournal.com 2007-01-10 05:50 pm (UTC)(link)
"What does your language look like?" Bridge asks curiously, as he starts a search on the computer catalogue for ESL books.

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[identity profile] southernbender.livejournal.com 2007-01-10 05:54 pm (UTC)(link)
She pulled out her notebook and showed him her notes in what looked like classical Chinese calligraphy. "But I don't have a brush so they don't look quite right."

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[identity profile] bridge-carson.livejournal.com 2007-01-10 06:04 pm (UTC)(link)
"That looks like what written Chinese looks like here," Bridge says thoughtfully. Standing up, he goes to grab a few books designed to help Mandarin Chinese speakers learn English, and brings them back to the counter. "You've already got an advantage in the fact that our *spoken* language seems to be the same, whatever the difference in our written ones."

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[identity profile] southernbender.livejournal.com 2007-01-10 06:08 pm (UTC)(link)
"That seems odd, doesn't it?" she said. "But your writing is so blocky and simple. Umm, I don't mean in a bad way. Just that it's not as...complicated."

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[identity profile] bridge-carson.livejournal.com 2007-01-10 06:15 pm (UTC)(link)
"Thanks, I think?" Bridge grins. "Anyway- the Chinese used in the books might be somewhat different than what you're used to back home- but I figure it's a little easier than jumping straight into English writing."

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[identity profile] southernbender.livejournal.com 2007-01-10 06:17 pm (UTC)(link)
She grinned back at him. "Thank you so much." Katara looked through one of the books curiously. "May I take one with me?"

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[identity profile] bridge-carson.livejournal.com 2007-01-10 06:23 pm (UTC)(link)
"Of course!" Bridge says. "That's what libraries are for. Do you have the card they gave you with your orientation package?"

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[identity profile] southernbender.livejournal.com 2007-01-10 06:27 pm (UTC)(link)
"Maybe?" she replied, digging around in the bag slung over her shoulder. She pulled out the mess of papers that had been given to her at orientation. "Is it in here?"

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[identity profile] bridge-carson.livejournal.com 2007-01-11 04:39 am (UTC)(link)
Bridge shuffles through the papers till he finds the one with the library card taped to it. "Here we go!" he says. "You just show whoever's working at the library this card whenever you want to take books with you," he explains.

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[identity profile] southernbender.livejournal.com 2007-01-11 04:46 am (UTC)(link)
"Oh good! Thank you!" She giggled. "Not that I'd be able to do anything with the books for a while. But it's good to know."
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