Day 5

Day 5 – Today we cleaned up the flat and took some time to delegate and go over house chores and rules. For lunch we had a noodle soup from a little restaurant that is just down the road from our flat. After lunch we headed over to the office where we had our first Mandarin class with Karma. The sounds and pronunciations are quite different from English. However, because of the small class size it seems like it will be a lot of fun. Because Karma doesn’t speak a lot of English there were times in the class where Carmen or Mike translated for us. I should briefly say that Gen and I have been very blessed to have Mike alongside us. Without his conversational Mandarin we would find going out much more difficult. After our first Mandarin class we headed off to HSBC and then took at taxi to Carre-Warre. On the way back we stopped at the local grocery store and bought some more groceries. Peace