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How can you eat an elephant? These days is coming quite often back in to my mind a question asked by one of our teachers when I was in India: “How can you eat an elephant?” She came to our school for a week to teach about language acquisition and we knew that her question doesn’t have to do anything with food. All the students were looking at each other when, smiling, she repeated that question few more times. The answer was very easy: “Bite by bite!” When you start to learn a new language (especially Chinese, even thou everybody says the same thing about the language he/she is learning), you really have the feeling that somebody put a big elephant in your plate. When the teacher reminds you (almost daily) that you don’t pronounce correct (or, to be more accurate- that you pronounce correct, but your tone is wrong), she doesn’t tell you something which you are not aware of, but the sound refuses to come out the way you want it…But the good news is: an elephant can be eaten, no matter how big it is. “Bite by bite!” Since we arrived in Kunming we keep asking ourselves: Why can’t we go to T. right now? Why do we have to stay here? How long are we going to stay here? And we still don’t have clear answers for all these questions, but things are becoming little bit clear now. We are more and more convinced that the best solution for us is to start a small business (graphic design and digital printing). We both don’t have any experience about business and we are little but scared, but a thought keeps coming to our minds: “what if He’s plan is bigger than we thought in the beginning?” A business we’ll help us to get a long term visa and we can employ some Tibetans. After talking to some friends here, we realized that it’s not going to be easy. Lots of burrocracy, money, stress, but it’s not impossible! That’s why, one of the reasons we are in Kunming is to start working on a business plan. The second reason, is for me to learn Chinese. Without Chinese, business in China is impossible, wherever you will be! The 3rd reason? We are still trying to figure it out… |
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