前两天，和学生上课时，讨论起来如果城市是一个人，那么你对这个人的印象是什么样的。聊得非常开心，希望大家和我们一起讨论。 The other day, when I had class with my student, we talked about if we consider a city as a person, what would be the image of your city? We had a very interesting conversation. And I sincerely invite you to join our discussion. 她说广州像一个小商贩，每天起早贪黑忙忙碌碌。但是他的生意总是做不了很大，一直是马马虎虎的样子。 She said Guangzhou is like a small trader. Working from dawn to dusk, hustling and bustling. But his business is always a small business, hard to expand. 而一海之隔的香港却是个非常成功的生意人，西装革履，派头十足。值得广州好好学习。 Otherwise, Hong Kong which is in the Ocean apart is a very successful businessman. Wear fancy suits, and be very flamboyant. It’s a very good example for Guangzhou.

The other day, I had dinner with a foreign friend, he called the waiter to clean up the table, and he said ‘这些不要了（we don’t need these）’.It’s OK, and we also have the corresponding Chinese saying like English. I often say ’不好意思，麻烦收拾一下（bù hǎo yì si, má fan shōu shi yí xia）-Excuse me, could you please clean up here?’

Turn left – 左拐（zuǒ guǎi）, Turn right – 右拐(yòu guǎi )， U turn – 调头 (diào tóu)， Go straight – 直走（zhí zǒu）, Cross the road – 过马路（guò mǎ lù）, Stop the car - 停车（tíng chē）。

In Chinese, there are a lot of ways to say washroom. Like ‘洗手间、厕所、卫生间’and so on. The ones Crystal often used are ‘洗手间’and ’卫生间’. ‘洗手间(xi3 shou3 jian1)’ is like 'washroom' in English, literally meaning ‘the room to wash hands’. ’卫生间(wei4 sheng1 jian1)’’s literal meaning is hygiene room.

Traditional Chinese Medicine subject considers cold things will cause the body to get cold which influences Yang deficiency or blood stasis. When I was little, my mother always told me that don’t drink cold water, eat less ice cream, instead of that, drink hot water.

'不好意思' means Excuse me, '请' means Please, '让' means Get out of the way, '一下' means a while/a minute, actually expresses short time, like ‘等一下’, wait a minute.

Do you know why Chinese use horse and tiger to express one is careless? 想知道“马马虎虎“的由来吗？点进来！ When I just started to teach Chinese, one of my student asked‘Why you use horse and tiger to express so-so?’As you guessed, I was stuck by this question… 刚开始教对外汉语时就被一个学生问到：”为什么会有‘马马虎虎’这个词呢？” 可想而知我必然当场愣住。 But clever as Crystal, later definitely answer the question easily. Do you want to know why? Follow me! 不过机智如晶晶，之后当然很轻松地解答了这个问题。想知道为什么，跟我一起来！ 马(mǎ)马(mǎ)虎(hū)虎(hū): From Manchu or Beijing dialect. People like to use‘ma hu’to describe someone who gives sloppy work or is plain careless, just like horse and tiger, not clever. After that , ’ma ma hu hu’ usually use to express ’so-so ’. 马(mǎ)马(mǎ)虎(hū)虎(hū)：来自满语或北京话lalahuhu。人们都喜欢用“马虎”来形容某人办事草率或粗心大意做事不认真，这个俗语形容像马和虎一样，没有人的机智头脑。之后马马虎虎又常用来表达“不差”之意。 Careless, so-so，not so bad The Story behind ‘ma hu ’ “马马虎虎”背后的故事。 In Song dynasty, there was a painter who always paint in his own way, made people don’t know what he is painting. 宋代时京城有一个画家，作画往往随心所欲，令人搞不清他画的究竟是什么。 Once, he just finished painting a tiger’s head, a guest visited and asked him to paint a horse for him, then he painted a horse’s body after tiger’s head at random. 一次，他刚画好一个虎头，碰上有人来请他画马，他就随手在虎头后画上马的身子。 When the guest came again and asked what did he paint, he simply said:’ma ma hu hu’.The guest didn’t like the painting, so he hang that in the living room. 来人问他画的是马还是虎，他答：“马马虎虎！”来人不要，他便将画挂在厅堂。 The oldest son ask him what is that, he answered: That is tiger. 大儿子见了问他画里是什么，他说是虎。 The second son asked the same question, he answered: That is horse. 次儿子问他却说是马。 Soon after, the oldest son went out to hunting, and he shot a horse to death coz he thought that was a horse. The painter had to pay for the horse’s owner. 不久，大儿子外出打猎时，把人家的马当老虎射死了，画家不得不给马主赔钱。 The second son once saw a tiger, he thought that was a horse, when he tried to ride it, he was killing by the tiger. 他的小儿子外出碰上老虎，却以为是马想去骑，结果被老虎活活咬死了。 From then on, the word ‘ma ma hu hu’has been spread today. 从此，“马虎”这个词就流传开了。