Tuesday, January 27, 2009

GoNg Xi GoNg Xi GoNg Xi Ni Ye!!!

Ni Hao(hello). As some of you may know, I am speaking as if I have some sort of an audience haha, I have been taking Mandarin Chinese for about two years now and I am loving it.  So since it was Chinese New Year and I want to honor the wonderful people....and their language I decided to have a little get together with my friends. So I ran around to all the stores to see if I could get anything "Chinese" and sorry to say it was a little weak....but the show must go on. And so it did. 
This is before everyone got there. I have insense in the tall dish and lots of it, and I didn't realize how strong it would be, needless to say we got rid of them. To one side is fortune cookies....yet again there are many....I love them. And to the other is shrimp flavored fries.....[brother] told me about him eating them in his Chinese class and so I thought hey we will try them, in the end they just became a practical joke on anyone who just happened to walk in. Poor kids.
This is the cd I bought and my hand. It was relaxing and awesome. We decided that will be a 
yoga cd.
This is all my friends who came. [Cousin] came l
ater so I have no picture with her in it. 

This is for you [cousin]. 
This too. no but really this is how the Chinese people train their children to be potty trained. It really is their only freedom in life though so I would take it. The rest of their lives they are in school. Poor things. 
[sister] was eating and it wouldn't bite off. You just have to have sharp teeth like the Chinese. ohhh and for the background...[friend] was doing her homework and happened to be in the picture.
[friend] and [friend] are eating. [boy who is friend] is going on his mission next month to Japan. We are now rivals......not really. they were matching by the way.  
Later we played some couch game and the girls won 2 to 1. [sister] had to be on the boys team. Anyways it was a lot of fun and I am so glad we got to celebrate the holidays together.
So if you, meaning my audience, were to see a Chinese person, make sure they are Chinese, you can say some of these sayings.
Nin Hao (neen how) Hello
hao bu hao (how boo how) how are you?
Wo hen hao (woo hun how) I am good
fang man guo lai (fang man guuooo lie) I am going to beat you up
Ni xi du ma (nee she do ma) are you on drugs?
this is jia (jeeah) family