Thursday, October 05, 2006

Autumn Moon is Teacher's Day in Taiwan

Somehow tomorrow we are also stopping in at my daughter's "old" school to drop off some mooncakes, and we will be leaving something on my Chinese tutor's door as well.

Huang Lao-shi is responsible for any good in my Mandarin. (In more ways than one. She only taught 'nice' words and I never learned how to say anything like "bad", "dirty", or "rude".) The mistakes are my own. Perhaps she is also the reason that my daughter has such lovely tones, although she was never formally her teacher. We certainly believe that my daughter did not learn her tones from this household.

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