Today's new words
Muqin jie kuai le! Happy Mother's Day!
After Mass today, when we stopped for our usual Sunday Starbucks (yes, as opposed to our any other day of the week Starbucks visit), the manager asked me if we also had Mother's Day in America, and if it were also today. I told her it was, and thanked her for her well-wishes. I didn't want to tell her that we invented the second-Sunday-in-May holiday. (The Post-Gazette has a lengthier history of the American holiday)
Tonight we will dine on Xibanyacai, or Spanish food. A new Spanish restaurant in Shekou recently opened, and its tapas menu includes wo de zui ai de nai lao (my favorite cheese), Manchego cheese. Language-wise, my head spins when we go there. I want to speak Spanish, and everything about that place starts the Spanish gears in my head. However, all the waiters are Chinese, so Xibanyacai it is.
After Mass today, when we stopped for our usual Sunday Starbucks (yes, as opposed to our any other day of the week Starbucks visit), the manager asked me if we also had Mother's Day in America, and if it were also today. I told her it was, and thanked her for her well-wishes. I didn't want to tell her that we invented the second-Sunday-in-May holiday. (The Post-Gazette has a lengthier history of the American holiday)
Tonight we will dine on Xibanyacai, or Spanish food. A new Spanish restaurant in Shekou recently opened, and its tapas menu includes wo de zui ai de nai lao (my favorite cheese), Manchego cheese. Language-wise, my head spins when we go there. I want to speak Spanish, and everything about that place starts the Spanish gears in my head. However, all the waiters are Chinese, so Xibanyacai it is.
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