Give Me Direction!

NI HOW! (Hello!) I was just eating Chinese Food. My favorite Americanized Sesame Chicken and it hits me! Not the food but, the reminder that it is time for another lesson. Yeah!

So Grandpa wanted to eat this chinese food with me. He hates eating with chopsticks though, so he told me to go into the kitchen and get him a fork. I didn't hear where he said to go. Call it temporary deafness. So I asked him to repeat himself. He then said "get in NAR and get me a fork!" You see a little hunger makes Grandpa grumpy! The words in all capitals is the way grandpa says it. It is also a word in Chinese. Mandarin Chinese to be exact. The word NAR means where. Where? In the kitchen is where he wanted me to go.

Lets do a little review now. We have the thrill of learning a new word behind us. It is time to go over what we have learned in the last lesson.

The Southern sound will be on on the left. The meaning of the word on the right. The correct pinyin spelling in the middle. Confused? I hope not. Lets try it anyway. The words are: 1. knee how=ni hao=how are you 2. Wah=wo=i, me 3. lie=lai=love 4. ma=rising tone=yes 5. ma=flat tone=no, stop

Very good! Now we move on. This time we will work on directions. As in the above. NAR is where. Now we will move on to a story about Grandma. This is about her most embarrasing moment in high school. One day she had this idea to try her mothers famous bathtub gin. This is the south remember. This was during the days of prohibition. Yes, it was illegal...shhh, don't tell. My Grandmother's Mother did make illegal booze. Grandma was still in school and it was during her lunch hour. For some reason she was home for lunch. Her mother wasn't looking and she stole a few sips of the contraband. This left her of course, a little tipsy. She then went to school and made a spectical of herself. She mouthed off to teachers and taunted her friends. One friend in particular. She was very cruel. She called her a name I won't bother repeating. Her friends retaliated and left her alone for a while. Grandma learned her lesson and never drank again. To this day she still calls it the day all her friends "SHUN-MUH". Not what is SHUN_MUH? What. That is what it is. I have not suddenly turned deaf, silly. It means what. Poor grandma it taught her a very important lesson, but, one friend in particular was the one to shun. Her name was SHAY and their relationship never recovered. Who? Funny you should ask that. SHAY means who. SHAY was her best friend. That's who she was. GEE, you might say she could get back to their old friendship after all this time. Maybe at a class reunion. GEE, they really should. By the way GEE means how many. As in, how many class reunions must go by before they make up? This was a really good story after all. To be honest I was a little worried. We managed to get three words out of the way there! So it worked out better than I thought.

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