# 1 for today
I don't speak Chinese very well
So we go out to eat at this Chinese food restaurant. I have no idea about half of what I was eating as I couldn't even pronounce it

let alone tell you what it tasted like in American food comparison

but it was very tasty ! So after we finish our meal the little ( I'm calling her little because I weighed about as much as she did when I was 10 yrs old she was so petite) waitress comes over with our fortune cookies, says something in Chinese and smiles.

Of course I tore right into that so I could be fortunate enough to find a fortune !


Anyways, the fortune was written in Chinese and I just had to know what it was. So I called her over and told her I needed translation and would like to learn to say this fortune in Chinese

by now the other servers were watching and listening. She reads it to me and looks with one eyebrow raised.

I in turn look back now REALLY wanting to know what it said ! So she read it slowly and motioned for me to repeat it. I tried my best Chinese accent I could muster up at the time and said my fortune out loud

Why was everyone else laughing I wondered ?

My husband leans back in his chair with both his eyebrows raised and a very animated face, he says.."OMG !! REALLY ?? THAT'S GREAT !!"

Like he actually understood my Chinese talk !



Now we all were laughing, I threw the little paper back on the table, the waitress pats my shoulder, we left after a bit and I never did find out what my fortune was

Next time that happens I'm bringing a dual language pocket dictionary with me cuz a girl's gotta know these things.
