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Today from 10:30 to 5:15 the power was out for the entire base. I think this was because of all the rain which Monterey is not used to. Usually when i t rains in Monterey, most places would call it drizzle, mist or just simply fog, but since Saturday night it was actually raining. I called my friend Ng today to speak Mandarin today and to see how ell my Chinese is. The good thing about speaking Mandarin to a non-teacher is that their ear is not used to hearing the layman Chinese speaker speak. My Chinese was okay except for the tones on certain words, a concept which is dificult at first for non-Chinese speakers. At least he could understand most of what I was saying. When he would speak to me in Chinese, though, I could understand most of what he was saying except for the vocab I did not learn yet. Zai jian!