Chinese Outing

So, today we went with our semi-chinese teacher (I say semi ’cause she’s not the only way we are learning Chinese since we are learning from books ‘n other people too) to the Farmer’s Market to get some veggies and to wait for a friend of hers who speaks Mandarin too. After getting carrots and cabbage, her friend came and we all spoke while going to Trader Joes. It took a little while to get used to speaking Chinese or to get into the frame of mind but I got in it. People were looking at us a little funny while we spoke at Trader Joes.

Afterwards, we all walked back to her apartment. After taking the grand tour of the place, she let me hear some Chinese Er-Hu (the Chinese bendy fiddle) music ‘n all. We all prepared the stirfry. Actually, it wasn’t quite a stir fry. As she was cooking it, I had all of these things I wanted to do (like put in the tofu first) come into my head but I didn’t mention them. It still tasted pretty good. By this time, my head was a little tired from speaking Chinese. A little while later, Her’s friend’s friends came over to speak Chinese and eat (as well as hang out I guess) one of the friends was Japanese and was speaking Japanese to one of the people. Boy, having somebody speaking Chinese to me in one ear and hearing Japanese in the other was nuts! It got pretty confusing. A little while later, we left. Luke’s head was really hurting. I don’t blame him. Later, we found out he had a fever. I guess that didn’t have to do with multiple languages flying around the room.