Today was a very good day. I finally got the rest I needed. I was supposed to go to church with my friend at 7:15am, but I didn’t get up in time…I was SO tired this morning, I couldn’t even open my eyes. So I slept until 10am, then I got up because I felt like I really needed to study. So I studied for 2 hours, then at 12pm I started getting REALLY tired, so I fell asleep again until 2. When I woke up I studied for a while, and I felt really on top of stuff. I finished learning all the new Chinese characters (hanzi) and listened to a bunch of Chinese lessons on my ipod, so I felt pretty good. But then Raintree came over at 3:30 and studied with me and Joanna for a while…everytime she comes over, she teaches us so much new stuff and it’s like another brain overload. It’s hard to process all of it I guess..so after she leaves I have to go over it all again and have time to process it. But anyways, me, Joanna, Raintree, and Geneva went out for dinner together at the hot pot place down the street. It was very fun…I think Raintree really enjoyed it, because she doesn’t usually eat hot pot. She didn’t really know what it was…I don’t think she’s ever had it before actually. But she really liked it, so that was good. She’s very cute…me and Joanna really like to learn from her. We’re going to meet with her again on Wednesday.
I think I’m forgetting all of my Japanese…it makes me sad. I thought knowing Japanese might make it easier to learn Chinese, but it doesn’t. If anything, it makes it harder. Even though both languages use the same characters, they don’t use them for the same meanings. So the character in Japanese for “mother” is used to mean “every” in Chinese. So even though I know how to write it already, it doesn’t help because the meaning is different and it makes it harder for me to keep them straight. And since I’m in China, my head revolves around everything Chinese…I’m trying to think about everything in Chinese and trying to construct everything I say in Chinese, so I’m completely neglecting my Japanese. So then if I deliberately try to think of how to say something in Japanese, I find that I forgot how to say it. Aiya! Hopefully it’ll come back to me when I start Japanese class again in the fall.
Omg I think I’m overdosing on Chinese. I studied Chinese for like…5 hours straight today. I think I’m in desperate need of some AMERICAN STUFFS.
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