There is a teaching company who is looking for English-speaking students to record reading their teaching dialogues for Chinese students to listen and study from.
The serviceperson was trying to ask me if I would meet with them. I was like, "Me? Why me?" Slightly nervous, I grabbed Andrew and we agreed to meet them. The service person told us to meet him downstairs in the cafe in about 45 minutes. So we waited, and made our way downstairs.
We meet this middle-aged Chinese man. He introduces himself and his partner, grabs coffee for us, and sits us down. Basically, they wanted to know if we could go to a recording studio and read their dialogues. He pulled out a bunch of textbook scripts and we read through them slowly, alternating the male and female parts. He was delighted. Andrew and I were getting kind of sketched out because it just seemed so random. It wasn't fishy or anything though, my gut said things would be fine. So we made plans to meet again.
Andrew and I were naturally blowing things out of proportion in speculation. OH NO WHAT IF THEY ARE RAPISTS AUGHHHH and the such-like. However, I figured, if anything, they were more worried that we weren't going to show. They wouldn't be able to "hurt" us or anything, seeing as we're Shandong students and there are other students that know where we are at all times, etc.
Anywho, fast forward a few days, and here I am right now at Wednsday at 3:40pm. I just got back from the last recording session. I also now have 600 yuan in my pocket. SCORE.
Let me tell you, those dialogues were hilarious. To spice things up, we read some of them in silly accents. I don't think they minded too much. Two days of about 5 hours of reading = 600 yuan (roughly 100 USD): 600 yuan goes a LONG WAY.
Hopefully I'm going to get a proper recording of the polished product to take home. Haha.
1 comment:
I would have totally nailed something like that.
"ooh yaw, its goood, eh?"
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