I'm on my way to school on the bus. It's been hard to keep up with daily writing. But I'll try my best to fill in. I only have 4 more teaching days and the last day is just a closing ceremony.
As of right now, I really like the kids. They are almost 7th graders and they have a tendency to space out or not listen cause they get distracted with each other and I just don't enjoy that age and dealing with those things as much as I enjoy high school - but that's really the only negative. I have a feel for what works and what doesn't. I like what I've done with then and I think they've learned things and have felt comfortable and have had a lot of fun learning with me - so I like that.
I also feel like I accomplished a lot as far as them learning about America and life in school there compared to here. That was my most magical moment. Their questions and comparisons were cool!
I'll be sad saying goodbye but I'm not in work-mode ... I really want to get back to touring and seeing amazing China!!
... After school ...
School was good and there was nothing scheduled for after so we headed home and Melissa and I wanted to see the Yanze River Bridge. So we ask the receptionist for a note to explain that to the taxi and we get in a taxi and he starts complaining. But of course we have NO CLUE what he's saying. He was clearly pissed off. But he took us. So we drive and drive and the sun is going down and I start thinking we don't really know where this is or if it's a good area or if we might not find a taxi back from there. And just as I'm feeling like maybe we should just bail and catch a taxi back we hit heavy traffic and he starts complaining loudly again and kicks us out of the taxi! So I guess he knew there would be traffic and that's why he was complaining at the beginning.
So Melissa has an activated for China iPhone so we get on maps and see we are still too far to walk. Like it'll be dark by the time we walk there. So we find a pretty park with a river walk and follow it along the city wall. It was full of people and it felt safe. Then we came upon a big hotel, so we figured it would be safe to eat there and easy to get a taxi.
We get to the restaurant and of course, the menu is all Chinese. So Melissa has a little book with helpful translations with basic food items. I ordered fried rice and eggplant, but no eggplant. So I order asparagus and he shows me in the menu that it's like $10 (which is very expensive for here) ... My fried rice comes out. My asparagus comes out ... And Melissa never got her shrimp. So mine was gooooooood. And Melissa ate half but she never got her shrimp. I think she didn't order it right. :(
So on our way out, we stopped at the bathroom & I was sooooo excited it was a sit down toilet .... But I set my camera on the counter thingy behind it ... And LEFT IT THERE.
We get back to our hotel around 9:30 and I REALIZE I LEFT MY CAMERA there. Ahhhhhh. So I go see Sally so we can maybe look up the phone of the hotel, cannot find it. I asked her to write a note saying I left my camera in the hotel bathroom.
Melissa, who was sooooo nice and willing to go back with me, pulled up the iPhone map so we can show a taxi where we need to go.
We got the taxi at a nice hotel by our hotel so the bellboy could ask the taxi to wait for us while I ran in to look. And we went back.
Melissa stayed with the taxi so that he would wait and i ran into the hotel. The receptionist read the note and sent a guy up to look. I suddenly got a feeling they wouldn't know where to look so I drew the restaurant and drew which bathroom, which stall and where on the toilet I left it. She laughed and called the guy so I'm glad I did that because I think he needed the extra directions.
I WAS SOOOOOO GRATEFUL!!! I ran to the taxi and he brought us home. I wanted to hug every person I saw. I was so lucky to get my camera back!!!!
What we had to show the taxi
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