and so french lessons have ended. ive completed a term at alliance française. it was so fun! i got to meet really interesting people (of which all of them happen to either be engaged to or have caucasian boyfriends! hmm). and my french tutor is really interesting. he looks like a hippie! hahah. huong, vlatka and i gave him a brownie after our last lesson. and he looked really touched. he kept saying, "merci beaucoup!" hes leaving singapore for another asian country. i wonder when will be the next time i'll see these classmates of mine again. the world is so huge.
mes cours de français me manques.
from french to mandarin, and here's ryan lochte's take on mandarin.
"what else, ohhh, the word Gombay is used kind for a toast and it means finish your drink whether its full or not you gotta finish it, great word i brought it back to the states haha jeah!"
i read that from ryan lochte's blog at swimroom.com and its SO CUTE. i think he meant "gan bei", which literally means "dry your cup (of beer/wine etc)". the way he types his blog and speaks is so african american vernacular english styled. he goes like "peace out", "jeaaahhh" (which i suppose he means "yeah", cause in some languages, like german, 'j' is pronounced like 'y') and adores lil wayne (whom he always refers to as wheezy f baby).
i think angmors are cutest when they try to speak mandarin. what a better classic example than michael phelps, who picked up basic mandarin to gear up for the beijing olympics. i simply melt when he went "gah zhi" (when he was trying to say "guo zhi", which is "fruit juice" in mandarin). and his "zhe ge nu hai zi zai she shui" attempt at saying "this girl is drinking water" (zhe ge nu hai zi zai he shui).
NI HAO, MICHAEL. WO AI NI.
GAH. I MISS THE OLYMPICS. THE WATER CUBE. PHELPS AND LOCHTE ON TV! :(
oh say, can you see by the dawn's early light, what so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming? whose broad stripes and bright stars, through the perilous flight, o'er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming? and the rocket's red glare, the bombs bursting in air, gave proof through the night that our flag was still there. oh say, does that star spangled banner yet wave, o'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?
& hush pretty pink lady ; at 12:39 am
MICHELLE :D
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