Just recording what happened recently 🙂
Category: Not in English
Twin Talk
So the twins have turned 2 this past week. Since their language started forming, I decided to try a little experiment: I would speak to them exclusively in my imperfect and learned Chinese while my husband speaks to them in English. As you can imagine, it’s been fun communicating in our house! Lol. Inevitably, one…
Competitive Elephants
When I was in Taipei last month, I visited the zoo. They’ve got quite a zoo by the way, and as I’ve said before, going to the zoo is a great place for me to get inspired. So many species, so many weird names, and all in Chinese! The caption at the bottom says “male…
Dim Sum
My favourite foods generally involve tasty meat enclosed in some form of delectable carbs such as the bun, wrapper, pastry, bread etc. In fact, to maintain consistency throughout, the Chinesy “Yin + Yangster” font that appears at the top of this website is called the “wonton font”. How’s THAT for dedication, huh? *wink wink* In…
Eglise de
For Spring Break I, along with my husband and daughter, spent two weeks with my sister in Ottawa. She took us on a mini road trip to Montreal, Quebec where I hadn’t been inundated with French since maybe 15 years ago. My rusty high school French came back and I must have seen “Chine” somewhere…