Nick's mum is currently holding an IB mandarin abinitio 'camp' for any QASMT students who wanted help or are in need of help with mandarin.

Today I woke up at 7:30 (just like a school morning TT.TT) and was rushing through my morning routine because i hadn't packed the night before. And being the perfectionist that i am, i had to make sure i had everything in a neat order before i could zip up my bag; which caused me to miss my bus :(

It took about an hour to bus to Jade's house ( i wish i didn't turn down Tim's offer to drive ) and Jade and her mum picked me up from the bus top. So i got to her house at around 10:30am ( i was late because i missed my bus :( ) and we started our 'camp'. Nick's mum is such an amazing teacher! we went through strategies on how to tackle paper 1 and how to break down the mandarin passages so we can answer the questions as quickly as we can; while getting it all right of course (y).

After the first session it was spring roll making and eating time! We made our own spring rolls with chicken, lettuce, carrot and this peanut powder slash icing sugar thing WHICH WAS DELICIOUS!!! and surprisingly we could eat it raw! like without the spring roll being fried; you can eat the skin just as it is!! i was shocked when i first ate it because it actually tasted nice! But after a while everyone just toasted the spring roll because it felt weird eating it raw. Everyone had an average of 4 while callum ate like  很多！！！That guy can eat! ahhha jks.

After lunch everyone played with Jade's Dog ( so CUTE! ) for a while then we went back into mandarin mode for session 2. session 2 was intense! Like it was hard to break down everything because i haven't fully brushed up on my characters. Some of the characters in section 3 of paper 1 i had never seen before, so that made it all worse :/

We finished session two at around 6 and started making dumplings for dinner. It was actually my first time making dumplings but Nick's mum was a great teacher (obviously) so it was easy to pick up after a while. The first couple of dumplings i made were UGLY though. They were all falling apart and i couldn't fit all the meat and vegetables inside - it just ended up as one big mess... ahhaha... Together we made about 200 dumplings! I'VE NEVER SEEN SO MANY DUMPLINGS IN MY LFIE!! and by the end of dinner there were only about 30 left!!! AND I'M STILL NOT SICK OF THEM! JUST REALLY REALLY REALLY FULL LOL!!

So after Dinner everyone just took a shower and now we're all chillin in Jade's movie room watching spirited away in mando ( awesome movie! ). There are 5 of us and only 4 recliners, so its a never ending battle of who can get to the recliners first. Later we'll dig into dessert which consists of mud cake and ice-cream ( Thanks Callum and Tim for ducking into the shops earlier! )

I've posted a whole bunch of today's pictures down below, enjoy!




























The photos just consist of us lazying about between our breaks as well as parts of Jade's house ( massive front door, movie room, backyard/frontyard, Yoda made out of lego! Jade's mum's towel collection ), and our food making and eating process :)

Thanks everyone for putting up with me taking photos 24/7 ! LETS ALL GET 7'S TOGETHER! :)

Labels: camp, dumplings, food, Mandarin, spring rolls

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