Da4jia1 hao3! 大家好! ni3 men5 zui4jin4 hao3 ma1? 你們最近好嗎? xi1wang4 ni3men5 dou1 guo4 de5 hai2 bu2cuo4. 希望你們都過得還不錯! :)

It's been a while that I haven't posted up any new entry. I'm really sorry. Here is not only a new lesson update but also an update on what's been going on in my life; in other words, what keeps me so mang2 (忙/busy) in the past few weeks:

I'm taking 24 credits this semester(The limit is 25, now you get an idea how many classes I have.), being a Campus News Anchor every li3bai4 san1(禮拜三/Wednesday), unexpectedly having been selected as a leader of this year's Drama Performance by my classmates; therefore, in the past few weeks I had also been busy with selecting an appropriate script and more difficultly, I tried to condense a 1-hour-40-minute play into a 20-minute one. It gobbled up my Mid-Autumn Holiday (中秋節/zhong1qiu1jie2) to get it done! :( Moreover, I have at least 4 private Mandarin lessons on Skype every week. Besides, I try to work on my poor Japanese with a student from Applied Japanese Department in spite of being a zhong1wen2 lao3shi1 (中文老師/ Mandarin teacher). Furthermore, I try hard to keep up with my 4 times/per week swimming routine I started last summer. You see me dragging myself to the pool after a day of concentration at school, and then drag my log-like body back home afterwards.

However I never forget about PeggyTeachesChinese: the need of a new Mandarin lesson for all of you who yearn to learn more! I would certainly try my best to upload a new Mandarin lesson once a week. And I hope the support from you guys will continue to shine when I get over-occupied by my school work at times. xi1wang4 ni3men5 ke3yi3 liang4jie3(希望你們可以諒解/Hope you guys can understand).

Xie xie ni men! 謝謝你們! :*)