Learning Chinese

A Toast to the Host.

Worn my new red jacket to church today. Church was in my apartment. We had 12 people over for church today. Then we all stayed and enjoyed a wonderful lunch together and sang some chinese songs.

See the many cans of Sprite. We all drank sprite Friday night at our special twig night out with David Chun, et al.

The place was a large party room which David Chun had reserved and invited us to.

HOT POTGood Food.

This is Dana writing today. We love our blog and the opportunity it gives us to share our stories and adventures with our family and friends. It also makes a written and photographic record of our love for and our life in China.

I am really proud of Jay who has really taken an interest in learning (mandarin) the local language here. He is doing quite well and surprises me often with his ability to communicate with the people. He has learned and sings a couple of popular Chinese songs for his students, at parties or school activities, or for anyone who will listen, in Chinese!

Here he is last Friday night at a wonderfully delicious (Hot Pot) dinner, toasting the host and his Chinese friends who treated our English teachers group and thanking them for the wonderful meal and their hospitality. He really has a lot of fun with it. I cannot understand him and the other teachers cannot understand him, but the Chinese people seem to be able to. What do you think? He says he has a long way to go. We all rely on him in when travelling, eating out, shopping and in the open market place.