East Meets West — A View From China

My fellow blogging astrologer, Mitch Lopate, moved to China in March to teach at a business school. I asked him to send us the occasional pithy little anecdote to show us how his Western astrology is being received over there. He writes:

So I’ve been teaching freshman English Reading & Writing at a finance-economics university in Nanchang since March–and astrology has been a major source of discussion for me. I have found it to be interesting as a verbal can-opener in order to try and get my students to talk. (They are VERY reluctant to practice their speaking skills: “We are afraid to make a mistake.”)