Wednesday - October 10th, National holiday! We didn't have class, so I got up late in the morning. Then I walked to a small restaurant and bought breakfast. The empolyees at this restaurant is so nice, so I've already been there a couple of times. They serve good food and let me practise my Chinese with them (because they don't speak English ;)) This time I told them stuff like my age and that I had family in both Norway and Taiwan. Simple stuff, but still, I am able to speak more and more Chinese everytime I go there. Who knows what subject we'll talk about next time..? It depends on our Chinese text-book I guess. After breakfast I tried to prepare for the mid-term exam. I tested my self and found out I could write 62% of all the characters we've learned so far perfectly. I'd forgotten some completely, and some of them I did with mistakes. I made myself flashcards and practised the ones I'd forgotten.
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| Spongebob! I might send this hat to my nephue. I hope he likes it! |
Our written mid-term exam wasn't too difficult. It was actually easier than I expected. We needed to read sentences and find out if the grammar was correct or not, then answer some questions. Later we read some other simple sentences and put tone-marks above the character. I did a few mistakes here, but nothing too serious. One other task was to look at some graphics and put in the correct measure word. Luckily all the measure words were written just above, so if it was to words we didn't know for sure we could make a guess (but this time I knew them all :)) I scored more than 94 points out of 100.
Friday - Mid-term exam, oral test
I still find listening as the most difficult part of Chinese-learning. Our teacher said some words, and we needed to check the correct one in our test-papers. Then we had prepared a speach and spoke in front of the class for 4 minutes. I had prepared more than 4 minutes of speach, but I accidentaly forgot to say some of it =/ In the end we should "buy" something from the teacher, like food or clothing, and of course use our Chinese. When everything was over I didn't feel I did very well, but I'm looking forward to get the results next week. The result of the mid-term exam will count 20% of our final score this term.
After the exam we went to a pineapple cake factory and made our own cakes. The factory also had a museum with some cake-culture history, like how they did Chinese weddings in the past, and how the cake was a part of this tradition.
Later on I went to a Swedish restaurant together with some Swedish friends of mine. It was expensive compared to regular Taiwan food, but it was a nice place and we had a lot of fun. Afterwards we went to a cool nightclub, a fancy club with a lot of people. The entrance fee was 300NT, and that included two bottles of beer. When I later wanted some water they wanted me to pay 150NT.. Well, I said no and bought it at 7Eleven for one tenth of the prize. That night I took a taxi back home. It wasn't easy to explain to the taxidriver where I wanted to go, but I made it in the end and got home safely.
Sunday I went to a place called Wulai together with some Taiwanese friends. We had dinner together and took a cable car up in the mountainside. The weather was nice and we had a lot of fun. Pictures below :)
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| Arrived the waterfall |
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| The parrot said something... Maybe the Chinese version of Polly wants cracker? |
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| This shop sold souvenirs and aboriginal rice-beer. They collected recomondations in diffrerent languages, so I wrote one in Norwegian! :) |
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| At the endstation of the cablecar |
Gratulerer med overstått eksamen. Høres flott ut synes jeg med så mange tegn!Så bra med den restauranten som gir deg mulighet til å snakke og erfare at det går framover.Ser at du også tar v tegnet på bildene nå. Tilpasning til omgivelsene?
ReplyDeleteTakk, gikk bedre på testen enn forventet :) Tror snittet ble over 96 av 100 poeng. Det er v-tegn og tommel opp på nesten alle bilder som blir tatt, så det var bare å tilpasse seg... ;)
ReplyDeleteDin nevø vil nok like capsen, men er ikke så mye sol og slikt her enda, så ikke nødvendig å sende i posten:p kul var den hvertfall!
ReplyDeleteJeg ser den... Klarte ikke gå forbi uten å kjøpe :p Hva med svampebob lue? De har alt av svampebob effekter her :p Men vi kan ta det når det nærmer seg jul :)
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