It's been a while since my last post. Things have settled down a bit, not going out every night now. Nevertheless I am feeling quite burnt out and exhausted from doing so much and I guess a lack of sleep at times. So yesterday I think I started coming down with some flu/cold like symptoms. After a marathon sleep I feel alot better today.
So what's been happening? Well, NYE isn't that big of a deal here, because the Chinese people have Chinese NY. I went to Tian'anmen square and there were stacks of laowai's (foreigners) there doing countdowns. It was pretty funny because there were about 6 seperate countdowns (there was no official timer so everyone went by their watches). We were supposed to hit a club after that but it took us around 40 minutes to find a taxi. When we finally caught one we felt tired and couldn't be bothered going to a club so just had a quiet one at home chatting and drinking with some mates.
I think my Chinese is definitely starting to improve now, I can see the progress. My ordering ability at restaurants is still very limited but is better than the 1st week when I was just pointing and not speaking one word. I can also talk to cab drivers and direct them if need be, although our conversations are pretty limited and usually about the same things.
Definitely missing everyone back in Australia, can't wait to see everyone when I get back. Will be going to BICF this Sunday hopefully (Beijing Inter Church Fellowship) with a few friends from the language school. Was chatting to a mate from the methodist church in Perth about stuff after NYE and was just encouraging I guess and it felt like God was giving me a kick up the butt for slacking off whilst in Beijing.
Zai Jian!
5 comments:
Well, you take it easy there.
'shen ai shi ren, sen zi jian ta de du sen zi shi ge ta men, jiau i chia sin ta den bu zi mia wan fan de yon sen.'
Let's see how good your chinese is now.To break the code above, you just need to ask your class teacher, you know the one with the dark hair, with glasses and last name 'Chen'...haha
So all the time out has taken it's toll, eh?
Sounds like some Chinese language tonic will do the trick..
Happy New Year Kris!
It's a beautiful day here in Sydney to begin a new week.
Happy New Year kris, joyce, tomas, dimitri!
God Bless.
Dayum I'm still trying to figure out who Dimitri and Tomas are!
I can't ever remember having so many Eastern european friends that I'd forget.
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