Jade Malfoy

Ingrid, your typical blond Western girl. (Her mother is an American expatriate. Her father is a teacher--he's half Dutch and half British.)

It's funny because whenever we go out, the locals will talk to me in Cantonese, because they assume Ingrid is a tourist. But then she opens her mouth, and her Cantonese accent is better than me! (^_^) lol

Mama's Cantonese accent is not good either, although we've lived here for so many years. I think her colleagues speak to her in Cantonese, then she answers mainly in Mandarin.

I'm glad we live in Guangzhou instead of Beijing or Shanghai though, because I think the food here is the best! I don't like Northern cuisine except for Peking duck and their steamed spiral chocolate bun with condensed milk.

Also, the climate here is nowhere as harsh as Beijing. I love England, but I never did like the cold (>_<) If the manor doesn't have such a sophisticated heating charm, I would probably refuse to get out from under my blanket every morning.

P.S. Brother, Al, Ingrid sent her love. "You've seen my picture, so please send me yours ASAP!" <-- is what she told me to tell you.

because I missed speaking it.

I speak English with Mama from time to time when I come home for the weekends, but more and more our conversation ended up being a hodge-podge of English and Mandarin (^_^);;

I wanted to take Japanese too, but the class is offered at the same time as Ancient Chinese Characters. And I couldn't miss that class, it's too important for the basis of my future studies (if I decide to study ancient Chinese magic). Many Chinese Wizards still write their spells entirely in traditional characters.

So anyway, the English teacher is an American! He has brown hair, green eyes--and half the girls in my class are in love with him. There's a rumor that he has Cherokee blood or something. They say that's why his skin is so smooth.

(Papa has smooth skin and he doesn't have a drop of Asian blood. My classmates are weird.)

The class has been loads of fun, but the girls don't like me now (~_~)
It's because the teacher likes to single me out as his conversation partner. It's true that none of the girls are fluent in English (since they were all born and raised here), but still (>_<) They don't need yet another reason to hate me.

Ingrid thinks the teacher has a fetish for British accent. Haha. I don't need to know your fantasies, Ingrid!