(Hopefully it'll keep improving!! I'll have my fingers crossed for all of you!! And yes, laosi. At least I knew what that one was. Like, okay, he's introducing himself, he's Chen Laosi. Oh, right, Chen-laoshi. Got it. Sometimes though... we had some really weird lost in translation moments pffft. I think the important thing is to just try very hard to be as flexible as possible about that kind of thing. Most people we met were patient enough to try and work it out with us. And, in my experience, everyone in Shanghai and ESPECIALLY in Nanjing became very excited about practicing English on us. But my gosh, they threw you to the wolves, didn't they sdkfgsdf Are you taking Chinese while you're there or just kind of picking it up as you go?)

I'll get the life raft...............