第一日番學 (Dear Diary #1) 一星期之前我搬咗Heidelberg。 今日我放完一年假之後終於去咗大學上堂。上堂見兩個朋友。一個係local同一個係international。堂好難但係有趣。我哋放咗學之後去食飯。Heidelberg嘅canteen好好食。我食雞項同飯，然後搭單車返屋企。今晚做咗運動。

Language and Friends 我喺四川去旅行過一個月。我琴日返香港，所以會寫關於言語。我唔識普通話，所以喺四川我唔可以講同locals。我學過少少四川話（yes同I don't understand )。我傾計用四川話locals好開心。 我朋友都係鬼佬。佢識普通話，但當佢講同locals嘅時候，佢哋唔好開心。 我以為佢哋冇好開心，因為普通話唔係佢哋嘅母語。 當我去華山嘅時候，我同樣經歷有嘢 (No idea how to say it Cantonese, but should be "when I was at 華山, I experienced something similar) 華山唔係四川，但係我見幾個四川人。我傾計同佢哋用四川之後佢哋一齊食同我返。 (How to say "with mandarin that never happened) 我遲啲見廣東人。我終於可以講同有人。我識少少廣東話，廣東人超開心。我哋一齊行山。 我嘅旅途之後我記得一個曼德拉嘅引用： If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes into his head If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart. So this time I practise a sentece structure I learned last time ("When I~, I did...). I always have problems when I have to say "verb+with person". I'm never sure where to put 同, so i used it a lot in this text. Besides that I'm not sure about the tense, because actually I haven't learned anything about it yet, because everyone says there are no tenses.

Christmas in Germany 差唔多聖誕，因為我今寫關注聖誕。 今年我無屋企人係身邊同我過聖誕， 因為我喺香港。所以我決定我會寫關注聖誕喺德國。 12月24日晚我哋喺德國過聖誕。我屋企人通常會去教會之後我哋一齊食晚餐。食完飯之後我地會交換禮物。我要有一個禮物比送比所有人，因此所有人從一個禮物送比我。 25日同26日係公眾假期。喺25日我哋同好朋友去食飯。我哋次次去一樣食肆。我哋食Gans mit Knödel und Rotkraut 喺26日我哋屋企人通常唔出屋。我哋捱夜同成日睇電視。 喺聖誕我想識喺香港你做咩

Guangzhou Part I 我今日會广州。佢係我嘅其中之一最愛嘅城市同埋我日日喪玩。我第一次喺嗰度去同我嘅dance crew。中國tour已內广州係我哋嘅第二個目的地。我喺香港答咗火車去广州。广州舞團嘅人同我哋係火車站見面。佢喺酒店哋帶咗我哋。我永不會唔記得呢個酒店嘅床。佢好真係好好堅硬啦。佢冇床褥。 我哋第一嗰晚食左飲茶。我好超級鍾意飲茶。之所以我哋差唔多日日食飲茶。我哋好攰因為旅遊，所以我哋早瞓覺。 我哋嘅監督人話咗我哋應該喺dance center教書跳舞。佢多話咗我哋唔應該預期好多。相反發生咗。我哋行路去BeijingLu。呢度係大戲台。我哋喺戲台應該跳舞。我哋好興奮。我哋喺戲台跳舞之前大件事開始。我哋吸客好大人群。警衛一定要防範佢。咁警衛修建障礙。我覺得我喺巨星啦。 我哋去食晏只係我哋嘅表現開始。當我哋出去戲台嘅時候好多人問影相同我哋。如果靚女問我，我日日話“我係靚仔”。如果我話呢個據知，靚女問我嘅電話後。哈哈。我哋俾幾個靚女再邀請食晏。哈哈，跳舞喺中國你有免費嘅食飯。 我哋似的跳表現。我前便好大人群未曾跳舞。呢度係千多個人。我哋前便三百個人通常跳舞。 大件事八點就好。好多我嘅朋友返酒店，但係我同幾個朋友去玩我哋自己。中國女知名我哋佢最愛嘅酒樓。我哋係咗好慶幸啦。食好好味同埋我學廣東話(好味/好飽) Today I will write about Guangzhou. It is one of my favorite towns and I always have an awesome time there. The first time I went there was with my dance crew. It was the second stop on our China-tour. We took the train from HK to GZ. At the train station we were collected by dancers from GZ. They took us to our hotel. I will never forget the beds in the hotel. They were really hard and didn’t have a matrass. On the first night we had yam ca. I really love yam ca. That’s why almost every meal was yam ca. We were very tired because of the travelling, so we went to bed early. On the next day our supervisor told us, that we should give a workshop at a dance center. He also said that we shouldn’t expect anything big. Well it happened to be the complete opposite. We walked to Beijung Lu. There was a big stage. We should perform on that stage. All of us were really excited. We already started to dance on stage before the event was starting. We attracted a huge crowd. The security had to keep them away from us. So they build up a barrier. I felt like a star in that moment.

Streets of Hong Kong 呢次我寫我嘅經驗喺香港。我同我嘅香港嘅朋友出去行街。我哋探太平山同埋。我哋夜晚去旺角。我哋喺旺角嘅街跳舞。 香港女有興趣外國人啦。我同兩個朋友被邀請一幫女晚飯。晚飯真棒。 我餘日做好多朋友。一個星期之後出去香港，我好悲啦。下目的地係廣州。我真係愛廣州。 This time I will write about my experiences in the streets of Hong Kong. I went out with my new friends from Hong Kong. We visited some sights in Hong Kong like the Victoria Peaks. At night we went to Mongkok. We performed a dance show at the streets. The Hong Kong girls were very interested in us foreigners. A group of girls invited my and a friend for dinner. This was a real surprise, because I thought chinese girls are less open. The dinner was really nice. On the other days I also made many new friends. I was really sad that I had to leave Hong Kong after one week. Next stop was Guangzhou.

First Time in China This time I want to write about my first trip to China. It will be the first time telling a story in Cantonese, so you will find a lot of things to correct. Also I'm not sure, if I have to use a special verb ending or whatever. Haha so we will see. 我九年八月第一次去中國。我同我嘅跳舞crew參加替換同香港跳舞crew。我好幸運我嗰餐時冇考試。 我，我嘅跳舞crew，一啲塗鴉人同一個舍監去中國。 我嘅搭直達飛機法蘭克福到香港。香港跳舞人等我嘅喺機場。我哋搭巴士同MTR去youth center。我住讀左一個星期嗰便/處同好多跳舞。 可時我哋行街，我學我嘅第一個廣東句。你通常先學“hello” or“ thank you",但係我學“I'm a handsome boy". 呢個係最重要句。點解？我下次會話你。 The first time I went to China was last August. I had the chance to go there, because my dance crew was invited for an exchange with a crew from HK. I was very lucky that I had no exams around that time. So me, my crew, some graffiti artists and a supervisor went to China. We took a non-stop flight from Frankfurt to Hong Kong. At the airport dancers from HK were waiting for us. We took the bus and MTR to a youth center (Youth Outreach in Sai Wan Ho). We lived in the youth center for 1 week and danced a lot. When we went out, I also learned my first words of cantonese. Usually you learn words like 'hello' or 'thank you', but my first words were "I'm a handsome guy". This probably is the most important sentence I ever learned. Why? I will tell you next time ;p Okay I decided to split the story in two parts or probably more. The trip was only two weeks, but a lot things happend. I always had a hard time to think of useful vocabulary. I think the notebook entries are a good way to find useful words. Last time I tried to write in Cantonese and give a English translation, but I only used sentences I already know. So this time I started with the english text and translated it to Cantonese.

First Notebook entry 你好。我九月去香港，因爲我想學轟動話。 我每星期會作文一篇文章。 我先介紹我。我叫julius同我埋係德國人。我係大學生同我嘅主修物理。我而家作文我嘅學士論文。我嘅兼職係跳舞老師。我真係鍾意跳舞。我識跳舞breakdance同hiphop。我而家只係跳舞breakdance。我日後我想初學ballroom　dances。我第一次去中國由於跳舞。 我(for 3 months）讀緊，不過我好懶 Hello. In September I will go to Hong Kong, that's why I want to learn cantonese. I will write a notebook entry every week. First I will introduce myself. My name is Julius and I'm from Germany. I'm a student and my major is physics. I'm writing my bachelor thesis now. I work part time as a dance teacher. I really like dancing. I learned hip hop and breakdance, but now I'm mainly breakdancing. Someday I want to learn ballroom dances or salsa. The first time I went to China was also because of dancing. I'm learning cantonese for 3 months now, but I was very lazy most of the time. So that's the first time I write in cantonese. I haven't found a good way to type the characters for Windows 8. Is there another way to start a sentence then with 我. Maybe it's because I'm introducing myself, but every sentences starts like that. I hope I can get more motivated by writing weekly.