7/12 to 7/14

7-12

All I remember about school today was that it was a good day. The kids had fun in class learning about professions. We did pictionary and the card game and they loved it. For the last hour, they announced we'd be ending early cause the kids were going swimming. So that's always a nice gift when you're given an extra 40 min of prep time!!

Ice cream time!!

Shelley and Etoile playing pictionary

Justin and Kitty playing pictionary

After classes we had our last culture class - Martial arts. We had a Kung Fu master teach us the basic Kung Fu moves. It was good, felt good to stretch and exercise BUT some of those moves were way advanced!! (Aka: impossible!)

Kung Fu-ing

7-13

Today after school we found a super yummy Indian Restaurant for dinner. I had chicken tiki masala and some yummy nan. Always good to have a break from Chinese food and eat with a fork :) 

Julie, Kelly and Melissa with our Indian food 

7-14

Today was (finally) the last day of teaching. I gave the kids their little gift bags and got a few little presents from them. I got a class gift of green tea and Chinese drama masks (one from each class). When Sally saw the tea, she freaked out, saying it was the best quality tea you can get!! The masks are gorgeous. Joy, Recher, Ella and Perry gave me pictures of themselves. Cathy wrote me a little note in a notebook she gave me. Lawrence gave me his kalidescope they made. Bob gave me a NASA rocket ship. Random and so cute!!!

We signed t-shirts. I had them sign my umbrella with sharpies. We took pictures!

I gave my teachers their presents too. Elaine gave me a pearl bracelet. 

It felt good to finish up. All in all, I didn't really teach them that much but I did get them talking everyday and talked to them a lot about life in America. I feel like I got to know them and connected with them the way I was supposed to. I would love to have been better prepared with materials and have planned a more organized and meaningful curriculum ... But this was my first time and I had no clue what to expect. I keep feeling like I need to know if I want to do this again next year!

After teaching we met up with the elementary school teachers and went for our closing dinner. It was at a hotel restaurant and the food was delicious. They served ribs and they gave us plastic gloves to put on to eat them!

Rib was yum

Then all of the sudden, after people had some wine in their system, it got really fun. Each table tried out doing each other being loud in some sort of way (we will rock you stomp / YMCA) then ... We got music on and everyone started dancing, making conga lines and having so much fun. We had Sally doing wiggles, Lewie up and dancing, everyone doing Gangnam Style ... Just FUN. what a great way to end a tough two weeks of working really hard!