Jing tian hao ma? (How are you today?)

Jing tian- pronounced jean tee-ann; means "today"

Don't have much time this week; I type slow :/

Short: My stomach hurts. This week was hard.

Long: We've decided that our companion is Kylo Ren when she wears a black jacket. 

Personally, I've learned how hard this is- learning chinese is HARD. Like so hard. 

Sister Cullen created a game so I'm gonna copy and paste to show you how hard, yet cool it is- enjoy! ;)

Wo ai nimen!

~Mao Jie Mei (Sister Hickman)

"We're still FULL immersion so sometimes my eyes kind of glaze over when they're explaining something and I just kind of wish I could understand but I'm getting better and better and learning more and more. So I basically love Mandarin and my Mandarin teachers here. Mandarin is awesome because some of the words are very symbolic. Let's play a quick game. I'll give you some words in Mandarin, tell you the meaning of the parts of the word and then you try and guess the word's combined meaning:

1. Xianzhi. 

           Xian = First

           Zhi = to know, knowledge

2. XinXin. (there are different tones on those so they are different words)

         xin = believing

         xin = heart

3. Xinxi.

            xin = heart

             xi = letter

4. Jieguo.

           Jie = to mend or tie

            guo = fruit

Good luck with that. Now have those words memorized in 5.7 seconds and use them in a lesson tomorrow! Good luck! Jia yo!

ANSWERS:

1. Xianzhi = prophet

2. Xinxin = faith

3. Xinxi = message

4. Jieguo = consequence   (good luck with that one. I think it might be because a 'consequence' could be considered the fruit of our actions? Who knows, not me!)