The week started off pretty hard. Monday is definitely going to be a bad day haha. The kids are insane and just restless from the weekend. I get it. But it got better over the coming days.
I've been doing this thing called ELE where I go into the kids Chinese classroom and teach them something each Monday and then a different class on Friday. Right now I've just been showing them photos of where my family lives! So far I've shown them Idaho and Florida :) it was fun to see their reactions to the alligators and frogs.
That night the Chinese teachers took us out to dinner and it was awesome! I mean, I didn't love all the food but it was fun :) and there were these roll/scone things that were so amazing...I ate so many..but yeah. Good times. Chopstick practice too :)
So I have two groups of students I teach...11-12 year olds and 8-9 year olds. Now let me tell you, those 8 year olds are the cutest things on the PLANET. So sweet and funny and loving. I love them :) we're doing drama this week and I'm teaching them about Peter Pan. It's going to be an adventure. Literally. Haha and I'm doing kitchen with my older kids this week which means making food and talking about it, so that should be a good time for sure. The older kids are awesome too, and it's easier to teach them sometimes. I just have a few groups where there's some naughty kids..but it's alright :) I just think it's more fun haha.
We figured out something quite intriguing about the first years this past week....when you're scolding them, they have no idea what you're saying. All they pay attention to is tone. Sooo a friend of mine named Colby decided he would say some interesting things to the little kids when he was telling them to stop whatever they were doing, and it went something like this...:
"Mary had a little lamp, who's sheep was white as snow"
"My favorite food is grapes"
"I'm a little teapot, short and stout"
And the best...
"You smell like beef and cheese" and to that the kid said, "yes sir!"
So basically...we're having a lot of fun here :)
Yesterday we went to this palace and pagoda with gardens and it was gorgeous! So much fun. The statues were so huge and all of the statues looked so ancient and awesome. We didn't go in the pagoda this time because we didn't want to spend a lot of money, but we'll probably go before we leave china. It is the tallest pagoda in china too! So amazing.
Tonight we went up on the roof and sang and there were actually stars! It was so surreal. I love the friends I'm making here, everyone is so much fun to be around and hang out with. I can't wait for all of the adventures to come and things to do with these rad people :)
PS. Check out this blog my friend has here! jakebrianbush.blogspot.com
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