Where I work

this is where I work, right now its a construction site






There are thirteen nationalities on this project, of course I have to represent Laos!

my daily Chinese

Its been nine months (already) in China and have yet to find a chinese teacher, well I'm not looking that hard. Until I find the right teacher my friends, colleagues, and strangers are my "teachers". My first attempt to speak usually ends up with someone laughing at me because 90% of the time my tone is completely off and it takes me at least three times to say it right and ten times to remember the words...so I have a lot to learn. A few things that I've picked up so far and its so hard!

zhi (yong) zhongwen zenma shou? = how do you say this in chinese?

wo xiang zhongguo ren dan shi wo bu shi zhongguo ren, wo shi lao ou ren = I look chinese but I am not chinese but a Lao person

hao ji le = perfect / tei bang le = perfect

xiao shi bo li = be careful glass

ai zhe = next to something / ji hu = almost

zou la = let's go

bang zhu = help

zhe shi ni de = this is yours

wo zai zhongguo gongsi gongzhou san nian = I am working in china for three years

zhag qi lai = stand up

mai dan/fu zhang = pay (separately)

berger = interesting (Tianjin dialect)

la = spicy or re = temperature hot

Only in China (seeing is believing)

I think they deliver 24/7

wondering if its really "pizza"

Intro to China...my previst (Oct. 2008)