it's really not that bad, you know?
the security guards at our apartment building have exceeded all our expectations: yesterday they stopped jolie from coming up to our apartment directly to hand us some leftover korean seafood pancake from dinner with her father, and insisted that she call us over the intercom first to confirm that we knew her.
i was in the kitchen when the phone connected to the intercom rang. jinni expressed surprise from the sofa, as did i as i walked out from the kitchen, because jolie hadn't told us she was coming, so we weren't expecting anybody - and when i answered i said 喂 (wei2)? it would have been very strange to say hello, don't you think?
anyhow, we weren't surprised at all when the security guard said 对不起，打错了 (dui4 bu4 qi3, da3 cuo4 le4) sorry, wrong number. i hung up and went back to heating up leftover porridge from lunch when our house phone rang, and it was jolie checking to see that she'd got our unit number correct.
she thought she'd gotten it wrong because i answered the phone in chinese and she thought she had called the wrong house.
how my chinese has improved, jolie thought i was a local.
but that's just one word. i'm not too sure how i sound when i speak in longer sentences.
i was in the kitchen when the phone connected to the intercom rang. jinni expressed surprise from the sofa, as did i as i walked out from the kitchen, because jolie hadn't told us she was coming, so we weren't expecting anybody - and when i answered i said 喂 (wei2)? it would have been very strange to say hello, don't you think?
anyhow, we weren't surprised at all when the security guard said 对不起，打错了 (dui4 bu4 qi3, da3 cuo4 le4) sorry, wrong number. i hung up and went back to heating up leftover porridge from lunch when our house phone rang, and it was jolie checking to see that she'd got our unit number correct.
she thought she'd gotten it wrong because i answered the phone in chinese and she thought she had called the wrong house.
how my chinese has improved, jolie thought i was a local.
but that's just one word. i'm not too sure how i sound when i speak in longer sentences.
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