Focusing on Chinese

In 2020, one of my main focuses was Chinese. To improve my Chinese comprehension and have more variety in speaking, I began practicing reading aloud articles from Chinese textbooks. I am currently reading from the grade 4 Chinese textbooks. I usually finish a grade every month. I also listened to podcasts about Chinese history and […]

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Library of Recorded Chinese Poems

In another article, I mentioned that my Chinese handwriting was not very good. But it wasn’t just my handwriting, my Chinese speaking and reading skills were not good either. Why? Because after I dropped out of school 5 years ago, I focused all my attention on English; which did pay off considering I am writing […]

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Traveling Across China in a Car

Around Fall this year, Nicolas, Cassie and I went on a road trip from Beijing to Suzhou. It would take about 13 hours to drive there, so we stopped in cities along the way. Sleeping challenges First, we arrived at Jinan, it took about 4 and a half hours… I sat in the front seat, […]

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Retelling Chinese Stories

In the article “Library of recorded Chinese poems” I said that I kinda stutter when I speak Chinese, it isn’t a major problem but still annoying. The cause of this is because I don’t speak Chinese all that much. For the same reason, I’m also not very good at explaining stuff efficiently. This is normal […]

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Big History Project

I was always interested in History, especially World History. It is always fascinating to me how we innovated and advanced, especially when I compare two different country’s history, I can really get a feel of the world at different times in different places. But I didn’t have time to learn a lot of history at […]

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Quote Collection

We used to make quote posters every week, basically, we think a famous person, then we research online for some inspirational quotes from that person to make into a poster and hang it on the wall. We do this because we want to inspire us, and to make it more noticeable and fun sometimes we […]

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