Teacher'sDay

Today was Teacher's Day in China. In the States, becuase I am 12 hours ahead of all of you, it was my mother's birthday(59). Yay to her! later she would give birth to Steve, but many artiists peak with their first work!

Teacher's day was nice and unexpected. I did know about it, but i did not really know that it would be so nice. Although i had to go in early and cram 5 classes into the morning, I had the afternoon off. The kid's were wonderful and i got some gifts: flowers, fruits, a big ass chocolate bar, and some really good green tea. It was nice. My afternoon off was spent going and getting resident/visa things done. The buerocracy is neverending and brutal, but that's the price of living in China, i guess. I just hope it calms down soon....

I will write more about teaching soon, but for today's lesson we did names. They could use their
Chinese names or English names if they had them. it was actually pretty funny. Many gave their chinese names( I used a small dialouge), but some had English names. The were pretty common for the most part, Tony, Sunny, Alice, David, Jessica, Sarah. Normal names. But some have pretty funny, strange names. I guess they gave them to their selves. I had already met a Fairie at the English Corner( more on that later). I have student''s named (English, not their normal chinese name) Joker(girl), M.C cruiser, Prince, Romeo, Happy, Melon (boy, and i could not stop laughing at his name), Monkey, and some other good ones i forgot. One kid was named David, but I couldn't understand what he was saying and i thought he was saying "stabby",which i thought was a pretty good name...

I will continue the chronological telling of my first weeks in china soon. i am pretty tired right now