yesterday i had my first chinese class. andy has been going to classes for a good few weeks now. compared to me, he's a pro at it. he loves to study it. me, i generally enjoy it but not to the same extent of his enthusiasm. plus, i'm the biggest procrastinator in the world, so i blame this condition for learning it at snail-pace.
the shitty thing is, that when we're in restaurants or out shopping, most of the time the chinese attendant looks at me and asks the first question. because of my black hair and semi-asian-looking-ness, they either assume i'm chinese or i know how to speak the language. so they're usually dumbstruck when tall, lanky, blonde, white guy busts out with some mandarin, and i look completely lost. i feel like i'm dishonouring my asian heritage or something (hey, apparently my great-grandfather is chinese). shame on me. but seriously, it's getting a tad annoying, the whole, 'assumption i'm chinese' thing. i was over the moon the other day when a chinese english teacher thought i was pakistani or indian. ha.
2 comments:
Boxxxx-headd!! What've ya done now? A blogg? Not fair, stealing away my captive audience before i've even started capturing them. The punters'll never leave you if you keep writing this well,.
lol. There are heaps of Chinese people out there who can barely speak Chinese (err.. yeah, i have to admit that I can't speak proper Chinese myself but least my parents understand me when I do. hehe).
The Chinese language is a REALLY hard language to learn but I'm sure you'll be able to pick it up really soon :)
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