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Published: November 21st 2010
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perfect in every way Hello all!
Gave you some halloween pictures of my kids.
Thought I would share my chinese progress with you, give you an idea of how it's going. Wrote a mini essay on how I celebrate my christmas back home, while having a chinese character desktop application allows you to make cool looking chinese writing, you have to hope that the first suggested character that pops up is the correct one, seeing as for every tone less spelling of a word in pinyin there are 3 to 8 different characters that could be the word you are looking for.
我的 好朋友问 我怎么过圣诞节在美国, 所以我告诉他;
在早上,我的妹妹气喘我 和我们 去楼下和我们拿我们的袜子。 然后,我们 坐在我的姐姐的 床, 和 我们打开一个礼物, 然后我们 去我们的父母的床和打开。 什么时候我们唇部准备 我们去楼下和坐在我们的客厅。 我们不写名字在我们的礼物所以没人知道那一礼物是他们的。 我们放贴着在礼物。 然后,逐个, 我们选礼物和打开他们。 然后我们做圣诞凡; 火鸡, 土豆, 和我们吃圣诞的蛋糕和巧克力 和馅饼, 和我们喝红葡萄酒。 然后,通常我们睡觉在客厅在萨法。 然后我们看一个新电影和我们吃巧克力 和我们睡觉。
(since corrected)
Popped it into google translate to see how I did...
My good friend asked me how to spend Christmas in the U.S., so I told him;
In the morning, my sister and I we went downstairs asthma and us that our socks. Then we sat in my sister's bed, and we open a gift, and then we went to our parents bed and open. When we went
downstairs for our lips and sitting in our living room. We do not write the name in our gift so no one know which is their gift. We put close to the present. Then, one by one, we have chosen the gifts and open them. Then we do every Christmas; man, potatoes, and we eat cake and chocolate and the Christmas pie, and we drink red wine. Then, we usually go to bed in the living room in Safari. Then we see a new movie and we eat chocolate, and we sleep.
Sounds pretty good except for the part where we eat man for dinner, apparently a more popular character set than turkey. Don't let this fool you into thinking I can read or write Chinese - if you know the pinyin your computer does it for you. Have finished the level one chinese book that we learn during chinese lessons, strangely seem not to remember the words covered from lessons 2 to 12.
Left my bike at the metro station bike rack overnight, sadly the next day it was nowhere to be found. Blessing in disguise as they say, because my extreme feeling of bike nakedness convinced
sad
because her costume was just a dress she wears all the time me to go to walmart and buy a nice new bike that wouldn't fall apart on me. Then I walked by bike guy on the way to the bus station and bought one there instead for 100 rmb. Successfully rode it to school on friday and as I wheeled it out to go home noticed the front tire was completely flat. Back on the road again yesterday with high hopes for the future of this bike. Now desperately need a bell because I have ridden into two people already. Usually the walking retardation the Chinese seem to have doesn't bother me because I have it too, but when you want to go faster than everyone and you have wheels they just all get in the way.
Haha almost forgot, classic Chinese dining experience - went out for a huge meal with the semi newly acquired 'group', found something on the menu called wai po, or grandmother. Very confused, ask the waitress if it really is grandparent? Yes it is, and promptly order it. No idea what it actually was, maybe a favorite of grandparents? Could have been any kind of meat. Upon finishing notice a ruckus in the dining
area next to us and see two waiters laughing as they try to stomp on a loose rat. First waiter gets it and as we watch grinds its head into the ground with his shoe, then picks it up by the tail, laughing, and carries it through the restaurant.
Kids still crazy, shenzhen still awesome, cooling down, which is amazing. parent teacher conferences last week and this week, come on over to watch a supremely unqualified bachelor of science give parents advice on how to raise their children. happy thanksgiving!
avalon
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Eric
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HA!
Love the broken english, talking like a true expat now... Miss you terribly! Glad you are loving your time over there. Can't wait to see you again... Shoot me your Skype name, I wanna chat! Happy Turkeyday!