So.. I have been lazy about updaing recently.... last week we had a foreign food party... where we all brought food that we could manage to make here and kinda missed from home. I took mash potatoes. Someone made grilled cheese (they had to buy the cheese in another city), pot roast, some sort of british pudding, potato skins, banana fritters, some Filipino food, and some other random stuff. It was a pretty good night... though I was kind of disappointed that we didn't get more Chinese people to show up..... but for some reason the Chinese teachers at our school don't hang out with us at all.... but I am working on that.
I have taught 2 weeks of classes now. The first one went amazingly well... Then the first two classes of week two went horrible... and Adam just told me ya.. we all have bad days.... where the lessons just don't seem to work at all. Then the rest of the classes went really well. I really like Saturday and Sunday where I teach anywhere from 6 to 8 classes in a day... you really just get into the swing of it and it just kinda flows.
You have one or two trouble makers in every class... usually I can make one of them go sit next to the Chinese teacher.... and the rest of the class acts better after that. But I have totally stuck two kids in the corner at this point :) The other foreign teachers thought it was amusing.... to use the classic corner.. but hell it worked :)
I have only thrown one kid out of my class so far.... or at least tried (if I would have had a better Chinese teacher... it would have been fine). He was being very bad throughout most of the class.. and for awhile was playing with this slime stuff... he got one request to put it away before I took it and just put it up on my desk (in its little container)... well about 10 minutes before the end of class.. he decided to grab for it again while I was writing something long on the board.. and throw the slime stuff on my lesson plan.....I barely caught him out of the corner of my eye.. and went to just throw him out at that point.. he wouldn't listen....(he was to fat for me to just pick up and move)... so looked at the Chinese teacher for help.. she asked him a few times to leave and then was just like.. . he will just sit there and be quite...................I was like wtf... why don't I have Ruby as a co-teacher at the moment.... women is spitfire... I'm even afraid of her :) So he just got excluded completely from the game we were playing for the last 10 minutes.
Finally went to one of the 2 clubs in town... it was pretty cool... the owner was having a birthday party that night.... so they had a giant like 7 layer cake....at one point the employees got the boss on the dance floor and then went and grabbed all the foreigners and put us up there to.........and started a food fight :) Icing flying everywhere :)
After the dance floor cleared a bit I got a chance to use my LED hoop for awhile....that went over well... and when I stopped the bartender brought me a free beer :) We went to a 24 hour restaurant afterwords (one of the like 3 in town) and since we had a group of like 10 people we pulled a bunch of tables together..... giving me plenty of room to hoop in the restaurant.... I only managed to get one waitress to try to hoop last night.. but I will do better next time!
This is a long post..... Yesterday I went to a cheap movie and bought Teeth for about $0.50 and Avatar for about $1.50 :) Then we found a 2 yuan store (kinda like a dollar tree except more only $0.30) and found some REALLY tiny hula hoops... so I have minis now... I think they are about 17inch.
And yes its still snowing.....
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