We Are Moving To A Little Place Called......

中山!!

Well, it's about time we made it official, and by official i mean announce it on our blog. Mark and I are moving to China for 4 months to teach English, and have a little adventure!!!

We just got our official assignment today. Zhongshan, China.

Here is a little information about our city:

• it is a sister city to Honolulu, Hawaii
• there is/will be a lamp museum, in the shape of a lamp
• there are several hot spring resorts
• has the largest bronze statue in the world
• a pedestrian mall (of course!)
  
• the above notable Fufeng Pagoda which is 7 stories and was built in 1608
• the province has 500 miles of coastline

it is located in the Guangdong province, which is SouthEast China, near Hong Kong.

Our current departure date is August 23rd, although we may opt to go a little earlier to have some time to ourselves before everything starts.



Can't wait!

English??

As many of you know, i have graduated. People keep asking me what i am doing now that i'm done with school and my response is "I'm taking more classes." I just can't seem to be able to let go! So, i am taking classes at SLCC (salt lake community college for my non-UTard family). I have joined the ASL fast track program to get my interpreting skills up to par... and I LOVE it! The only downside to this, is that i have to drive to Salt Lake twice a week, which for me is quite a bit of driving considering i used to take the bus everywhere.

But, Mark and I have found a way to turn my boring drive time into my productive time! I am learning Mandarin! We got a CD set from the library and I'm getting pretty good if i do say so myself!I can already say "I am an American," "I speak English," "I speak a little Mandarin," "Do you speak English?," "Excuse me, can i ask?," I know how to make a phrase a question, say two different types of "yes" and "no," and all kinds of variations and mix-and-match's of all those! Considering I've only done it for about a day and a half i'm feeling pretty good. So good in fact that I had my first dream in Mandarin! It was SOO weird. In my dream i kept trying to talk to Chinese people saying all of my new phrases, but towards the end i just kept running around shouting English?!!! English?!!! I felt like i was stuck saying just my few phrases and i was desperate to find someone who I could really talk to! I thought it was pretty funny!