"Lauren"
"Dan"
I had such a great opportunity this week! A new patient of mine is Chinese! She is from Guangzhou. I sat and practiced my Chinese with her. She nodded her head and said I was pronouncing some things like, Ni Hao, correctly and other things she looked at me confused and just said "no" :) When she was about to leave she said, Xie Xie!, and I jumped so excited and said, I know what that means! Xie Xie!! :) I asked her if she would help me with my Chinese and she agreed to. So, each time she comes in, we can have a mini-language lesson!
We also discussed things like how beautiful the White Swan Hotel is and the cultural favoritism for boys. She said the boys are very "spoiled". She talked about how she was treated much differently than her brother. Interesting.
Her daughters name is Jennifer. I thought of you Kayce! :)
3 comments:
That's great!! I keep thinking about how grateful I am for all of the neat opportunities that our adoption is providing for us. Had we not made this decision, we wouldn't be open to many things going on around us just like your patient and her knowledge of the language. Very fun!
That is so very cool! Maybe you will be teaching us some Chinese! :-) Keep it up!!!
Hi Mardi and Dan,
Happy Birthday to you Mardi. Hope you have a real great day. I just read your postings and sounds like things are going well. Have a great Birthday
Love
Dad
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