说中文

Day one of only speaking Chinese.  At 8:30 this morning I signed away my right to speak English, or even listen to English.  What followed was probably some of the worst Chinese I've ever heard, but it was fun!  I would describe this as the honeymoon phase.  We are all running on adrenaline, using all the Chinese we possibly can.  I imagine we will run out sometime around lunchtime tomorrow, and things will get pretty quiet around here.  The title of this post, shuo zhong wen (speak Chinese), is exactly what I wrote on my hand to remind myself that English was off limits.  It occurred to me that it might be a good tattoo...but I will sit on that idea for a while.  I only had a few mess ups, like when someone came to my door and I said "come in."  Oops... Hopefully that's the last one.  Fingers crossed.

EJR