Packing is going well but it is hard, how do you pack what you will need for 6 months to a year in one checked bag and a carry on and laptop bag? What will we need? One blog says take lots of clothing. Another says you can get most of what you need once you get to China. And yet another is about the lament people have in bringing too many clothes with them. Nate and I are NOT bringing our winter coats and planing to get outerwear in China.
We've got school books packed and I'm betting against hope that we will be able to get reading material in English either on line or in stores. Learning Mandarin has gone better for us. Repeating the phrases in Chinese has been great and I know that when I get off the plane in Beijing I will be able to say hello and goodbye, I'm hoping to be able to hold more of a conversation. However, do you remember taking a foreign language in high school and how you learned phrases that made no sense what so ever? I had a moment like that tonight as I was working on my Mandarin. Tonight's lesson was about what fruit it was and the answer. Then the next moment the question was how many pens do you have? I reminisced with my husband about odd things you have had to memorize in a foreign language like "My pig is Green". Well off to do more Mandarin for the night.
We've got school books packed and I'm betting against hope that we will be able to get reading material in English either on line or in stores. Learning Mandarin has gone better for us. Repeating the phrases in Chinese has been great and I know that when I get off the plane in Beijing I will be able to say hello and goodbye, I'm hoping to be able to hold more of a conversation. However, do you remember taking a foreign language in high school and how you learned phrases that made no sense what so ever? I had a moment like that tonight as I was working on my Mandarin. Tonight's lesson was about what fruit it was and the answer. Then the next moment the question was how many pens do you have? I reminisced with my husband about odd things you have had to memorize in a foreign language like "My pig is Green". Well off to do more Mandarin for the night.