Hungry?

If you get hungry in China you are going to have to know how to order! Lets go through some stories about Grandpa to learn some words about eating.

Grandpa has this boat that he really loves. When we go out on the lake, I sit in the front. When I was little and would go for rides with Grandpa I would say ME ON BOW! This way I would call my place. We would eat sandwiches out on the lake made with peanut butter, and the meaning of the new word, bread. ME ON BOW is bread.

Sometimes grandpa would be rough on the motor of the boat and it would begin to make sounds. CHA CHA CHA chug. The sun would beat down and it would make me thirsty hearing this sound so I would get out the meaning of the word CHA, which is tea and get a drink.

We would get out to the middle of the lake and fish. Eventually Grandpa would let out a big YAWN! Then he would tell me how his mother prepared fish soaked in the meaning of the word YAWN, salt. He tells me it is very good. I have never had it so I don't know.

After a while Grandpas pole would start to pull. "Grandpa! YOU have a fish!" YOU convenietly enough means fish! He would reel it in and decide, he is too small and throw him back. I know that grandpa was really just being kind. Of all the fish we caught, they were always too small!

A little later on I caught a fish. Grandpa would then look at ME and wink. "Honey, your look too small too." Honey is what ME means. ME however is said in the fourth tone (\). The tone goes from high to low. If you say it in the third tone (that is the v above the letter) It makes the word mean rice. "I think you are right Grandpa." I would then let him take my fish off the hook and throw it back.

Somtime Grandpa would actually fall asleep while fishing. He would then jerk with a start if he woke up. He would bang his knee with the pole. "KNEE OOH! Dang it we should give up fishing and go get some old cow to eat instead." Cow of course, being the meaning of the word KNEE OOH.

"We need to get out here earlier to get the big fish." Grandpa would try to reassure me.

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