Chinese Conversation Club

I was suppose to go there alone last night, while Rob goes to play ping pong close to home. But Rob was late from work coz of all kinds of transportation issues, and in the end he offered to come to Chinese Conversation Club ( = CCC) with me. We took the subway to go there and we were looking for the place for a little while. After realizing that the little room with big glass walls inside one of the front yards is the actual place - we went in. Each of us got a Chinese person to talk to, all students, some students for teaching Chinese as a foreign language. It was so great! First of all, this way you progress in your own pace of speaking and understanding - coz it's a 1 on 1 conversation. They have special forms to fill in while talking - in which you or the Chinese partner can write down the words you didn't know while talking (It's a table with 3 columns: Pinyin, Characters and Translation). I had such a nice conversation with the Chinese guy, things I never thought I'd ever talk about with any Chinese person. Things like fate, and God and peace and war, believes and wishes, hopes and hobbies. It was very nice, and I'm definitely going back there. The shame is that it's only on Thursday nights and Sunday after noons, I wish they had this every day...

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Went shoe shopping today. Came home empty handed... Found nothing that I really liked, and in the streets I went to today there used to be a big fake market, and since they closed it down it's almost impossible to walk there without being harassed by a person trying to sell you a watch or a bag or god knows what. It sounds a bit like this: "Lady! Lady! Watch(a) Bag(a)!!! Look(a) Look(a)!!!" Chinese ppl have a hard time finishing a word without a vowel- coz of what they're used to in Chinese, so they add an "a" to most of the words... So they follow you everywhere, some touch until I have to yell at them to stop touching me, some just block the way on the street, which makes you walk in zigzags all the way and run away into stores all the time. So, I decided to go shoe shopping again some other day in a different place...