A Fun Collaboration

 Gayle Simmons and I (left to right)

For our class assignment, we had to collaborate with a fellow blogger on...anything. At first, I thought about collaborating with someone whose blog was similar to mine - a love of literature. However, I decided to think outside the box and collaborated instead with Gayle Simmons of Let's Learn Mandarin blog. And boy, it was fun!
I reached out to Gayle via Facebook in a private message and told her of my idea to do a Welcome message in Mandarin to my blog readers. She thought it was an awesome idea and she set out researching the words in Mandarin that I wanted to use and I had to learn how to pronounce the words.

We decided to do a video blog to show our efforts and results and to bring the message to my readers. We originally planned to shoot the video outdoors in Woodford Square, however the weather did not permit. Instead we shot the video at my workplace and one of my coworkers was our videographer.

Kaelanne Jordan, our videographer

We laughed, we had fun and we did it! Here is the video of our collaboration: