Griffin's Post:

September 9, 2010

I have a four day weekend because of Hari Raya. We are going on a 3 day trip to East Malaysia. It is a two hour flight to get there. We are going to see caves. People used to draw on the caves. They didn't draw with blood. They could have. I don't know what they used to draw because in the old days what kind of ink was there?

School is pretty hard. It's hard to get around the school. There are such long lines in the cafeteria. The only things I look forward to are snack and lunch and playing soccer at recess. I had Mandarin class today. "Nu hi qui qui de pao" means the girl quickly ran. "ting" means listen. "ting" means stop. There are two different types of ting. One is long and one is short. The listen ting is long and the stop ting is short.

"Shuo jung wung" means speak mandarin. All of these might not be spelled correctly but I don't know how to spell them. There are a few symbols. But I can't remember them.

The symbols are important. In fact, if you say the wrong symbol (character). Like, if you say I want dumplings but use the wrong symbol, then you might actually be saying I want sleep.

From, Griffin