Quite ridic ulous, eh?

I've started and stopped this blog countless times. My journey of learning Mandarin is like driving at rush hour: A red light at the end of every block. At each stop, I notice I've learned something new, but know I'm still 20 blocks away from home.

So, what to do? Yes! Of course! Buy more books! Just this week, I subscribed to the local kid's newspaper. Each page has colorful pictures and the articles are written with ZhuYin. With my subscription I received a free kid's dictionary and this week's issue. The guys were standing out front of a post office and ignored me as I rode my bike in front of them. When I realized what they were touting, I wheeled back and confirmed about ten times that "Yes, I do want to subscribe to the newspaper," and "Yes, I can read ZhuYin."

Hopefully that will get me studying more. But I'm still working on at least three other books. Ah. It would be nice to at least finish ONE book, now wouldn't it.