Oh the busyness of my life! Seriously. I'm getting lots of hours in at work. They've been scheduling me Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Friday (with the week starting on Sunday). On the one hand this is good because they're cutting and adjusting hours according to how productive a given bear builder is, and it looks like I'm one of the good ones (haha). On the other hand, I'm, like, working. Hunh. Throw in Chinese class Monday and Wednesday and FAWG on Friday and church on Sunday morning, and you've got one busy girl.
Chinese class is going...well, it's going. We had a very difficult quiz today. It was dictation, and Kong lao shi (our teacher, Ms. Kong) read a paragraph in Chinese and we had to write down the characters. Not exactly quickly, but not slowly either. I of course got by writing the pinyin (a phonetic transcription of the Chinese characters) and then writing the characters. I completely blanked on a couple and biffed more than one. I'm not sure there's partial credit if you get 2/3 of the character correct. But for the most part, I was pleased with my performance.
Then we got to watch sample presentations including one from last semester's student who was hen cong ming (very smart)--one Kevin Hogan. The presentation was all about his family, so there were some pictures of me in it, as well as cute ones of the dog. I did get a bit embarrassed (all of the pictures featured me with very short hair, which makes me realize we've really taken very few pictures since we moved into the house) but of course, Kevin just kicked ass, even if I did get put on the spot a couple of times. It was kind of weird to hear the class chanting from the presentation, "Shelby tai tai shi hen piang liang he cong ming" (Mrs. Shelby is very pretty and smart). And I was called upon to say, "Wo ai wo de xian sheng" (I love my husband).
For anyone remotely Asian or familiar with Chinese, there are tone marks in there that I'm too lazy to incorporate.
Oh wait! I forgot I installed Simplified Chinese in Windows!
我爱我的先生 I love my husband!
Posted by Shelby at March 19, 2007 08:39 PMHow proud you must be of your man. Yes, and one baby Hogan and you will be even busier than you've ever been!
Enjoy the extra cash!
Posted by: Katrina at March 20, 2007 07:54 AMWait a minute - I need to go through as many of these old blogs as I can to get caught up because it was only this morning I was inspired to find you... but you're working a Build-a-Bear, and adopting from China!?! Holy smokes, what else has changed??? I am so happy for you! E-mail me.
Posted by: emnightingale at March 20, 2007 11:24 AM