Thursday, April 21, 2005

"Ni Hao!!"


I shoulda known better than to stretch on a street corner after my run today. Thinking that I lived in a neighborhood of seniors and that they rarely looked out their windows, I usually cooled down after jogs around the lake by walking up and down my block and doing some stretching. Today was no different. It was a sunny day and I was doing a typical runners stretch where you stand with your feet apart and lean over to one side and stick your butt in the air with one leg bent, when suddenly I heard a car pull up behind me.

"LEKKER blablah!! blahblahblah... LEKKER blahblah!!.. Ni Hao!! Ni Hao!!! LEKKER!!!!"

After the first time he said 'lekker' (which means yummy in Dutch) I kinda assumed he could only have been meaning one thing... I looked over my shoulder and saw a 20-something young man in a car!! Needless to say, I quickly got out of my stretch and walked even more quickly to my front door. AHHH!!! What a sick perve!!! does he really expect people to respond to a generic 'ni hao'??? at least learn something else in Chinese!!! What is he doing in a senior neighborhood!?!? It's not safe anymore, o noooo.. but I was lucky he drove away and didnt follow me to my door, phew!!

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Ni Hao! I' m an italian boy, and I have read your blog. You' re very very nice! I love holland (I' ll come in September for the 5th time, by car from Rome...) and chinese girls. I' m studying chinese too. Jo jiao Flavio. Wo xue xi Han yu. Wo ai zhong guo.
May I know you? My e-mail is: mantide00135@hotmail.com