The Chinese girl who does not speak a word of English and whom I tried to communicate with by writing Chinese characters (and dismally failed) turned to be a chatterbox! She is very talkative and speaks to everyone. Everyone listened to her with big smile and nods! It looks as if everyone understood what the girls said. But they came to me after the girl had left and told me that they could not understand what she said at all. Sooo-oh funny! I went to the induction to the Gym today. Every year, they require users to sign a medical consent afresh. There were two Asian older men in the session. Both look to me Chinese but it seems that they came from different countries since they did not speak each other. The medical consent form does not have a translation. Those two men do not speak English at all. So the trainer started trying to translate it into kind of a sign language (?!). I should not have laughed but I ...
100 days in the Villawood Immigration Detention Centre