Nimen hao??!
Chinese word of the week: pengyou (pronounced pung-yo) means friend
Short version:This marks my month mark! It has been 4 weeks!
Long version: To commemorate this moment I'd like to share a story from my first day:
After being swept away quickly to a huge line for the elevator, we waited for about 20 minutes when surprise! I was on first floor and didn't need to wait at all.
Then the "host missionary" who was giving me the orientation dropped me straight from my dorm to the classroom. I had a 30lb bag of books, and when I walked into class I was the 2nd to last to arrive. And there was my short ginger teacher (PICTURED ABOVE) already speaking mandarin to me. My host missionary left, but she still had my stuff, so dropped my books on the table, and ran after her.
BUT my desked collapsed under the weight, so I ran back to pull my desk back up and my host missionary came back threw it at me basically then left again.
My companion summed it up as a whirlwind falling apart.
Also this week I realized that instead of guessing the charade the teacher does when I don't know a word in chinese, I just rhyme it with another word in chinese. In English for example it would be someone saying "house" and I'd go "oh ohhhhh mouse! wait no pounce!" or etc.
I always wondered why I could never guess the words right.
Wo ai nimen!
Thanks for the love and support!
~Mao Jie Mei (Sister Hickman)
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