M for Mandarin

I am a Mandarin Teacher, living in Hong Kong..

Monday, January 15, 2007

Thank You


To my dear friends and students, and the blog friends online, I wish you all a Happy & Healthy, and Prosperous New Year!!

I had a very quiet Christmas and the new year day. Most of my students went back to their hometown during the festive seasons and came back with very tired body and mind! They surely enjoyed their time a lot, and some of them remembered their teacher during the holiday, so they bought me gifts! Hm... alright, I'll forgive you for not answering properly in Mandarin, lol...





This is a gift from my old student Michael who is in New York right now and he's preparing for his photo exhibition. You can click here www.asianimages.blogspot.com to see some of his brilliant work!

I normally use only pencils while teaching, and this is definitely the most valuable one in my pencil case now!



In return, I gave Michael and his wife this handmade cushion cover.

There's a Chinese character in the middle (that's my cross stitched work!), we read it "Fu" (in Mandarin), it means "happiness/ fortune", it's one of the most popular Chinese character especially these days as the Chinese New Year is coming soon!!




This is a gift from my Dutch student Alex, it's a book about the messure words in Chinese, one of the useful teaching materials he gave me!! Alex speaks good Mandarin and he can read quite a lot of Chinese charaters, he definitely knows the importance of these messure words! Big THANKS to you, Alex!!!



This is my favourite cross stitching magazine, and it's a gift from my British student Helen!!
This lovely issue is not available in Hong Kong, I have to buy it thru ebay each time... Now you see how happy I was to get it from Helen!!
There are many sweet designs that I want to stitch immediately!! I have already started the cover bear and it will be for Helen for sure!!





This is a very tasty gift from a sweet 20yrs old Korean lady. She's a cheerful university student and has returned to the US. I look forward to seeing her again by end of this year!





hmmm..... goodness inside out..











I failed to make my posting for a few times. Hopefully this time it works!! I started to doubt that blogger treats me as a stranger, I can't leave comments to many others and experienced so much hard time even on my own posting!!

I will be back soon!!

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