At Least I'm Not Learning Cantonese

Nimen Hao?!

Word of the week: Dongxi (kind of sounds like donkey but with a "she" sound at the end instead of key- it means stuff)

So I'm trying to be more optimistic this week! While listening to the Cantonese speakers, we decided they sound like aliens and we sound like pirates. And I am grateful I am not learning Cantonese.

Short version: Life is a roller coaster of emotions. And I really like to roll on the floor. 

Long version: So while in a practice teaching lesson with a teacher, she was telling us about her family, and motioned a steeple looking thing, with hand motions moving back and forth. I just stared for a moment, then said "oh... Catholic." She looked at me confused, asked if I understood, and I said yea. Yea... that was not what she said. She said she lived here and her parents lived somewhere else. I have no idea how I got Catholic out of that.

Here's a pic of us with our teacher/ the one we are teaching too! She's so sweet!

A MESSAGE: One of the Sisters here told me that the lighthouse does not see it's own light. It needs others to see the light. Sometimes we feel we aren't meeting our purpose in life, but we are! So even though we can't see our own progression, others can!... Though no one has really told me I've progressed in Chinese haha. I mean I went from just Nihao to nihao ma (hello to how are you) so I guess that's progress!

I love you all so much! Thanks for all of the support and kindness! You really have no idea how much it means to me!

Wo ai nimen!

Jiao you!

~Mao Jie Mei (Sister Hickman)