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5 Good Reasons to Learn Mandarin
- Mistaking the fire alarm switch for the light switch. This is a true story :) On my 1st day I couldn’t find the light switch in the bathroom. There was a small orange switch on every cubicle and everything was in Chinese. Now I know how noisy the fire alarm really is. Of course they forgave me :) Do they really have to put one in every cubicle though?? Siyempre, the moral lesson here is not just to learn Mandarin, but also common sense :)
- Having to spend 5min to explain using sign language to the store lady that I need a shopping basket.
- Having to draw this to find out if the oats my friend saw at a store were instant.
- Being limited to ordering from food stands with pictures of the food.
- Unknowingly buying a seafood sandwich that looked like ham and egg. :) (I’m allergic to seafood. No, my eyes didn’t swell. Thankfully. I just itched. But it wasn’t bad. Maybe it wasn’t all that authentic seafood.)
marshi: Yayks Maan, bloopers talaga! Good thing they didnt panick when they heard the fire alarm.hahahaha
ReplyDeleteHahaha! This is really funny! kakahiya iyong alarm! natawa ako sobra sa drawing. haha! - Erika
ReplyDeleteAnn, this is sooooo funny! did you post this in Facebook too? I want to repost it! Hahahaha! Really made my day =D
ReplyDeleteYou know it's funny. When we were in Shanghai, we didn't go out prepared and we couldn't find any eating places close by with pictures. So we just looked at what was being eaten by a customer and asked how much that item cost. Sadly we got some pork dimsum instead of the vege we were expecting (from the looks of it) but we managed. Haha.
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