zak is becoming cina! he is being taught putonghua by a french teacher in oxford, and when she asked why he had to come to england for this, he pointed out he had been taught french in singapore by a chinese teacher, so why not? we had a really good (if a little rudimentary) conversation in pinyin over icq this morning, and i'm really impressed! he can write too! he's going to write me a letter as soon as he learns enough characters. i'm very excited!!!! and when his chinese is good enough, we'll go to orchard together and bait people. i'll go up to some cina person and ask them a question in english, and they're bound to answer me in chinese, and then i'll look at zak questioningly and he would interpret. teehee.