NIMEN HAOOOOOO!!!???

nimen hao (pronounced knee men how): How are you all?

Chinese word of the day: Jia Ting (pronounced jaw teen): family

I know how long these emails can get so:

Short version: It was good.

Long version:

Wow I am at the MTC in Provo! It already has snowed twice this week haha. 

So I got here, said a short goodbye, then was rushed off. Walked into my chinese class, and oh my it was scary it was ALL in Chinese! Oh and our teacher is a short ginger man. During break I walked out, looked at my watch and said "well I think it's time for me to go home." 

It didn't help that the first day I forgot a notebook, then the second day I brought the notebook but forgot the pen. I was a mess, and I felt so bad for my companions Sister Cullen and Sister Althoff. What a great first impression. Let's just say things went up from then on. Purely because things couldn't get worse.

And there are many moments when I want to give up. Especially when 6 out of the 10 in your class spoke chinese before, and they're not even asain! Except Sister Althoff who was born in China! But anyways, when I realized I need to learn this language for the people of Taiwan (and my mom) rather than myself to impress people, things started picking up.

I think my companions have realized my weird quirky self and have embraced it (for the most part.) because the sooner the better hahaha. 

Funny moments:

We companions joke how we all should have been the hermanas because we all know spanish and when we don't know something in chinese we say it in spanish.

 We drew faces of all the people in our district on the kiwi's my mom gave me (sorry mom! we learned about charity that day and we wanted to apply it) and then gave them to our district/class (7 Elders and 3 Sisters-us). Also the cutie is our teacher Mai Lao Shi. Because. Yeah.

Wo ai nimen! ( I love you all!)

Mao Jie Mei (Sister Hickman)

p.s. Send me Letters! If you go to dearelder.com you can write me e-mail that they'll print and give to me like letters for FREEEEE. The letters make me less lonely ;)

My address is:

Sister Christin Mao Hickman
APR19  TAIW-TAI
2005 N 900 E Unit  81
Provo UT 84602

p.s.s. This is my companion studying, and me crying on the floor (laughing). I actually was trying to do a chinese squat and couldn't get up, so I just fell over. But it describes my life.