First Day of Language Classes

Taking classes at the Bridge School (http://bridgeschoolchina.com/). Highly reputable, despite mispelling their name in the page title at the top of the browser window.)

Curriculum includes oral language, chinese characters and pinyin (roman letter equivalent of chinese words. Example: nǐ hǎo is pinyin for 你好, or "hello".

Classes meet three times a week, Tue and Thu 9:30-12:30 and Fri 1-4. Intensive, but fun. Nice group, almost all women, many expat wives. One young lady here for two months from Hong Kong just to learn Mandarin.

Classes actually started last week, so I have some catching up to do. On the agenda for tomorrow: finding an office supply store to get index cards to make up some flash cards for memorizing.