Homework

Day 11
Today began the day of the snooze. I think I hit the snooze about 4 times this morning. Completely settled in. Today was a very weird and unpredictable day. Lunch was not filling at all because we shared dishes between my 5 co-workers and myself, I didn’t drink as much water, I didn’t feel like falling asleep at work, and our daily meeting was held at 4pm instead of 9am. Our meeting lasted about an hour and a half and during that time they talked about everything. At first it was about work, then I was finally officially introduced to my fellow design team, learned everyone’s names, and then it just went off. Terry eventually asked me, “Do you believe in God?” I said yes. He said, “So that mean you no eat blood?” uh….I eat meat. It was so interesting to see their reaction when I said Jesus and Christianity. Terry then asked if I did this before every meal, and he put his hands together as if he was praying. I chuckled and was kinda amused but also saddened to see what he thought of Christianity.
Tonight was my first Chinese lesson, Cindy is my teacher. Learning Chinese is probably one of the most frustrating things to do because of all of the different tones and just to figure out how certain endings sound. It is also difficult to see letters together and sound out how the would sound either in English, Spanish, German, and now Chinese. I learned how to pronounce (poorly on my part) pinyin (written Chinese characters in decipherable words), family members, greetings, good/bad, open/close, and taxi/driving directions. All in all I’m really looking forward to learning more, even though I have homework.