I first created this blog to ensure I don't lose my English. I wanted to keep a daily blog so I wouldn't forget to write in English but after living almost two months in Taipei and teaching English language and now a writing class, I'm realizing that I need to improve my Chinese!
I knew the language barrier was going to affect me and I thought I could handle it but now I'm noticing how my Chinese is really bad lol Okay..maybe not extremely awful but bad enough where people are asking me to repeat things and they notice my accent right away. It's not a bad thing but today I was trying to leave my uncle's apartment and the security guard asked me where I was from since I went through the wrong gate. He asked me who I knew and I said uncle in Chinese and he had no idea what I was saying. I finally had to say my mother's brother and he understood and then asked me where I was from. I just wanted to go home and not have a conversation with him about my ethnicity. Oh well...that just means I need to keep learning Chinese and keep practicing by speaking even if people can't understand what I'm saying :) Ooo I wonder if I should start blogging in Chinese?? lol jk
-Chihchat
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