我们在五年级的一年当中要学四种外语——拉丁语、中文、西班牙语和法语。虽然我已经教过同学们很多中文，但是今天我们要和凌先生一起上中文课，还是令我们很激动。凌先生来自台湾，他很能调动起课堂的气氛，他能轻易地让一节课变成一场喜剧或者即兴表演。

　　我们拿着文件夹来到语言课教室，我们进来时，凌先生已经站在门旁边等着了。他用中文说：“你们好。”而我们也会用中文问候他。今天，校长亚历山大女士也来听课，在这种情况下，所有人都希望表现超常好。凌先生先向我们问好，并且再次自我介绍。虽然我们不知道他是什么意思，但我们还是模仿着。突然，凌先生走过来，故意碰了一下爱丽的肩膀，说：“呀，对不起。”“哈？”爱丽一头雾水。凌先生便解释给我们听，于是大家都牢牢地记住了这句话。他还经常以两只熊猫的对话来让我们做练习。

　　在中文课上我们学习了家庭成员、数字、食物和饮料。我们最喜欢食物和饮料了。我们还以此开了很多玩笑。我们班有很多中国迷，像盖比和保尔，他们很喜欢炫耀自己的中文。中文课快要结束时，我们吃了一顿迷你餐，在这个过程中所有人都必须说中文，这又是一个即兴表演。“先生，您要些什么？”席亚拉问。“两杯可乐，一碗米饭。”约翰说。瑞亚和我很喜欢看他们的表演。我们真的很享受这种轻松快乐的气氛。“我想要汉堡包。”盖比用极为纯正的中文说。盖比感到很自豪，不停地说：“汉堡包、汉堡包、薯条、鸡翅和汉堡包。”“哈哈……”我们都笑了。乔西费劲地用筷子去夹盘中的海绵(食物)。瑞亚和我见到那场面时，忍不住笑得前仰后合。

　　“亚历克斯在哪？”凌先生问。哦，他在给我们起中文名字呐，这应该是最激动人心的事了。亚历克斯听了，看看爱丽。“快去呀，爱丽，是你。”“什么，是你吧，亚历克斯。”“哎呀。”亚历克斯高兴地去拿了他的名片。“梅凯特，你的中文名字是什么？”我问。“哦，我的名字棒极了，姓是梅花，名是凯旋。”

　　我们整个星期都在谈论这些名字。“好了，再见。”凌先生说。中文课结束了。我喜欢中文课。

　　January 8, 2010

　　The Chinese class

　　In Chenery we would take four languages a year—Latin, Chinese, Spanish and French. I had taught my classmates a lot of Chinese, but today we would have our first Chinese class with Mr. Ling. How exciting! Because Mr. Ling could make us have lots of interest on Chinese. He turned the class into a drama or an impro。

　　We brought our language binder to the language classroom. Mr. Ling was standing by the door when we came in. He said “Nihao!” to us. And we said it back to him. Today our principal Ms. Alexander was here watching our class too. Everybody wanted to do well on this class in  such situation. Mr. Ling said hello to us and introduced himself to us again. Although we didn’t know what he meant, we still said back to him. Mr. Ling walked upon and hit Ellie’s shoulder intentionally, “Oops, duibuqi。” “Huh?” Ellie was confused. Then Mr. Ling told us what it meant and we remembered this word forever. And he always let us practicing it as a conversation of two pandas。

　　On Chinese class, we learned family members, numbers, foods and drinks as well. And we liked foods and drink the best. And we always made lots of jokes on them. There were some Chinese fans in my class such as Gabbi and Paul. And they loved to show off their Chinese。

　　Later on the class, we had a mini dinner together and we had to speak Chinese all the time; it’s another impro. “What would you like to have, gentleman?” Ciara asked. “Two Cola, one rice please,”John said. Rhea and I liked to watch them talking very much and we really enjoyed such easy and happy situation. “I want some hamburgers,” Gabbi said with extremely pure Chinese. Gabbie felt very proud of herself。“Hamburger, hamburger, French fries, chicken wings and hamburger。” “Ha ha。” We all laughed. Josh tried hard to use his chopsticks, and pick up the sponges (foods) in the plates. When Rhea and I saw this, we shook forwards and backwards with laughter。

　　“Where is Yalikesi?” Mr. Ling said. Oh, he was giving us our Chinese name. This should be the most exciting experience ever. Alex heard the name, and looked at Ellie. “Go, Ellie, it’s you。” “What? It’s you Alex。” “Oh。” Then Alex went to get his name card happily. “Mary Kate, what’s your Chinese name?” I asked. “Oh, my name is awesome. Plum is my surname, and victoriy is my first name。” For the whole week we were talking about these names。

　　“Okay, Zaijian guys,” Mr. Ling said. And the Chinese class was over. I like Chinese class。