Chinese project

Have slacked off on the Japanese and fancy trying something different.  Everyone else seems to be writing a novel this month, something that I have neither the talent nor the inclination for.  But I like the idea of a time-limited project, so I've decided to have a crack at Chinese, just for this month.  Textbook is the original 1995 edition of Colloquial Chinese by Kan Qian.  And away we go.