Friday, May 27, 2005

Great day

Just a quick blurb because something exciting happened today. I had a conversation with someone in Chinese! It was the longest, most successful one I've ever had. I was walking home and a guy said hello, so I said hello back. Then he wanted to talk to me, but aside from "hello" he didn't know any English. But he was so friendly and smiley and keen that I couldn't resist. And he was so patient! I told him he was speaking too fast and that I didn't understand very much, so he spoke so slowly and tried using different words. Sometimes he had to repeat things about 5 times before I finally understood. And then it was so satisfying! We were able to talk about where I'm from, what I'm doing in China, that I live nearby with my boyfriend, work at a school down the road, when I finish work etc. I must day, I was extremely proud of myself, I never thought I'd speak enough Chinese to get that far. Yippee for me!!

Also, I taught a couple of demonstration classes in a public school today. It was quite cool. Each class has about 68 students (although they cut it in half for me), the building was old, the rooms were packed...it was just what I'd imagined a Chinese school to be like, but never experienced until now. And I was the only foreigner there so I got lots of looks. The students were really friendly though, and eager to talk to me.

Good day today!

9 comments:

Unknown said...

Congrat\'s on your success. Thanks for visiting my space. I felt the same way when I read your list. It was spooooky. Are you me??? OOOOOhhh!!!

Marley said...

Hey...congrats on the conversation.....that is exciting! I\'m proud of u!

Jenny said...

congrats! you do know that he was just trying to pick you up though, right? ;-)chinese or not, boyfriend or not, they\'re all MEN. :p

Laoch said...

祝贺你很快将流利

Isabella said...

Congrats on a sucsessfull conversation. Kudos, I would not be able to do that at all.*Hugs*

Brenda said...

way to go sista! great way to end the week eh?!

amanda said...

Laoch: um....right. That didn\'t look like anything I\'ve seen on a menu, so I\'m lost!

Tracie said...

Whoa.....speaking more chinese now.....that is fantastic!! I think it would be awful hard to do...heck, speaking Cree is tough enough...gurrrrr!LMBO!!!! LOVE the new Healiner......sneaky woman. I am amazed at some of the searchs I ahve seen in my Stats...."oi". WHen I was talking about Ang\'s 46DD\'s ...someone did a google search on 46DD\'s and got linked to my space. I kid you not....lmbo!Laterz Gurl(((HUGZ)))

rob said...

Hello again, Manders Blue.I am cold, and my feet are cold.The Christians will not abate nor will they surrender. I need help from you and all the rest of the Chinese Jews. We must stop these people in their tracks.Congratulations on your powers of Chinese. You have done well and your skills will come in handy if things come to a head.Dr. William Lustington

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