Letter 17: My winter vacation

Hi Tim, my winter vacation was awesome. I went to school to play volleyball with my friends, and also learned how to play mah chung. Mah chung is a eastern kind of chess. You can often see them appear in Taiwanese or Hong Kong movies. Although it is complicated, it's not that hard to learn. First you have to draw 14 cards(not poker cards) and then you to get all of them settled. When you're playing, each tern you can dump one card and draw another, and when someone in front of you dumps a card that you already have a pair in your hands, you can yell out PONG! There you get one set. This activity is usually used in gambling, just like poker. But it does't take that long, normally you can finish a round in 10~15 minutes.