Chinese I Spent My Entire Weekend With
Chinese I spent my entire weekend with Mom, Dad and Grandma. I was completely emersed in Chinese. I spoke and heard Chinese 99% of the time this weekend, even the tv and movie we saw over the weekend was all in Chinese. I took my grandma to Yummy's for dim sum today and had a good talk about some of the family history. She told me that her father was the first person in China to grow strawberries. He came to America before WW2 to study agriculture. So he then brougt back the knowledge of some kind of rubber substance I think and also strawberries! She also told me how her father was persecuted and beaten during the Communist Revolution. All that talk about China in Chinese made me forget where I was. I thought I was in China, especially since I was eating dim sum and it was pretty good. Tomorrow I will go to work and return to speaking a lot of English, blah. The Magic of Google With the help of Google I have gotten to meet some interesting people over the internet. I have met a very special friend in Malaysia and a wonderful family in Xiamen, and not to mention the scores of students doing research on the Zhou Dynasty. Google continues to advance and I believe it will be second nature to everyone in a few years, just like the remote control. Speaking of that, rumor has it that Google is going to be put up as an IPO soon.