Week 6: Game Night

After we all gathered around and doted on Michael's cute kitten, people started breaking into their own conversation groups. One by one, the groups broke out the games. We had a table in the corner for bright pink mahjong. Jenga moved from one group to another, and the other main game being played was Uno!

Hope everyone had fun tonight! Maybe you learned something new too?

Week 8: Game Night

Although some people probably had papers to write or midterms to study for, we had fun playing games with everyone that came!

There was Scrabble, Mah Jong, card games like Mao and 13, and Go (which many wanted to play but didn’t know the instructions entirely). The game was just sitting there at first, until two people who knew how to play finally discovered it.

I had fun enjoying everyone’s company while playing games. It was a nice break away from all the school work and studying! I can’t wait to see you all next week.

:)

~Shirley

Game Night

Thank you for those who came to the meeting, it was really fun and we actually used Mandarin today!!!  We had 2 tables playing Mah Jong, and there were both people that were new to it and people who already knew how to play teach.

The 3rd table played various card games such as Poker, Black Jack, Mafia, and BS.  We tried our best telling the stories while playing Mafia in Mandarin as well as counting in Chinese for BS.

Don't forget that tommorrow from 11AM-2PM we will be in front of HIB selling Jamba Juice.  Also, be sure to join us for next weeks meeting for Conversation Night: Technology and Internet lingo in English and Chinese.  Hope to see you all there!

-Trenton

Scrabble Night & Outing

Oh man, I feel bad for you if you missed out on this week's meeting.  We all got together and played Scrabble (though a few of them resorted to Mah Jong) and a pretty good time.

Then someone mentioned they were hungry.  Pretty soon, everyone started saying they were hungry.  So we all decided to go to the UTC right across campus to eat dinner.  We went to Steelhead's for their $5 special on pizza and got 6 pizzas.  It was so good and so worth it for the price we paid (though I kinda forgot what the total was).  Best of all, Andy paid for all of us!!! (lol, j/k we paid him back).

We did have a blast, but not to say we didn't learn anything.  Preparing for Scrabble, we learned a few new english words that helped our game play.  Aa, ae, oe, and eau are appearently words.  We also learned a few new phrases in Mandarin if we won, lost, or gave praise to the other player.  So if you don't want to miss out on the fun, come to our meeting next time!

Mah Jong Night!

Thanks to all that came to our meeting for Mah Jong Night!  Even though most of us didn't know how to play, there were other who were able to teach us and help us win several games.  We started out the meeting playing an ice breaker game to get to know one another.  It's called swapping identities and everyone tries to remember the 3 facts about that person they swapped names with.

It gave us a chance to practice our English and Chinese as well as getting to know more people.  After the ice breaker, we started Mah Jong.

It was confusing at first, but by the end, one of the games that had started didn't want to stop until someone won.  (btw, Ethan looks so cool in this picture, lol).

Again, if there's any questions, please e-mail us, leave a comment on this blog, or send us a message on facebook.  Look forward to next week's meeting as we will be celebrating Obama's Inauguration!

-Trenton