Chinese Class Celebration Lunch

As my Chinese Class for the Spring semester is finishing up this week and some of my class mates are heading back to their home country, we all decided to go out for lunch. Also it was quite appropriate going out to lunch because our current Chinese lesson was on ordering food at a restaurant.

The teacher found a restaurant called "New Taiwan Restaurant" that happened to be very close to where I live. The restaurant name is also a little tongue-in-cheek because the interior is decorated in all the nostalgic memorabilia of yesteryear.

One of the Taiwanese cultural habits,very similar to the Japanese, is to take a photo of almost everything in life. And this was no occasion. My Chinese Language teacher bought her camera and took many photos of us (her students) and also each plate of food that was served. However, below is a photo taken by one of my Japanese classmates and she was kind enough to print a copy for everyone in the class.

To give you a quick introduction starting from me in the bottom right corner and going clockwise:

• My Chinese teacher language teacher.
  
• A young South African guy called Johnny.
• A very smart Korean girl Xiou Xi (and she is returning to Korea soon).
• A Vietnamese lady.
• A Japanese lady who kindly gave everyone this photo.
• Another Japanese lady.
  
• A young Vietnamese guy.
• The next Two are Vietnamese girls.
• The tall looking guy is from Mexico called Fernando.
• A German girl called Nina and she is also return home to Germany at the end of this week.
• An American born Taiwanese called Alex. And finally
• Another Mexican called Yu-An.

Sorry I couldn't remember all of their names, many months we had name cards but they have long gone. Although I don't feel too bad because the two Japanese ladies have very similar names and the teacher always calls them by the other name.

Anyway, all of this is going to change in a couple of weeks when we enter our Summer semester. I am going back a class to redone the second work book as I found the pace was too fast for me so it will be good to concentrate on grammar rather than on the new characters.

Till next time, haveagoodone...