Sept 18 2013

Wednesday-

Just when you think you have it figured it out, they swipe it up from you!

The saying goes something like that, right?

I slept terribly for some reason [probably the honking loud traffic right below], and was up early but too groggy to actually do anything, even move. So I hung around there for a bit before digging into my book, Russka. I didn’t have too much else to do, after all- I didn’t have a class till 3.

Katie had one at about 11, so she got ready to leave and was there by 10. Lucky her because shortly after arriving, one of the kids from her Friday class grabbed her by the hand and led her to the classroom. Because guess what?

They changed Friday classes to today!

Who knew?

We sure didn’t!

Of course Katie had no time to call me until her sudden class was finished. It was 11 then, 10 minutes before my class was to start! Katie was willing to help out, thank goodness. I was trying to stumble around on the phone with her as I tried changing [doesn’t really work] about my Grade 5 class. I was out of the house in literally five minutes, heading out.

The elevator was slow, so I ran down nine flights of stairs. The other short elevator into the street wasn’t working [the one on the left refused to acknowledge there was a fourth floor and the other one acknowleged it all right, but couldn’t shut its door or more elsewhere. So I took to the lane and luckily found another way out as it started to rain. Perfect conditions!

Luckily, I was there about ten minutes into the class. Or game time, as I should put it.

Abby and Katie were there, goofing around with the kids with I Spy. I think Katie controlled my class better, which kind hurt but hey, I didn’t really end up doing much and I can take from her so it’s really helpful.  Katie instigated another game as I tried to gather my breath some more, getting the kids to run up to the chalkboard and find the correct letter. She was out of games after that, but I brought  up Pictionary which always works, so we did that for another ten minutes as well. And because they were good, we played the first five minutes of Tangled at the end!

That was my teaching day. Not a lot to it, really. I think it confused the kids when I showed up and didn’t do anything, but I didn’t have anything planned [I still don’t have the correct book for them either, I just find helpful American categories of things to discuss], and I think they deserve a game day. I mean, hey they’re about to go on break for a three day weekend, you know?

So that finished, and we went over for lunch which was pretty decent, and sat with Magi again. She’s such a doll! We really have to hang out with her soon, but she’s so busy- most teachers are at the school until about 11 PM, it’s terrible.

Then we were on our computers for about 2ish hours trying to find things to do this weekend since we ran out of plans. We came up with a few but nothing too promising so we finally game home to chill out. Katie went through another tourist book we have here and I napped- then we went over for dinner, which was just a few measly left overs with plenty of rice. Pretty lame, but hey it’s food!  Then we looked over some more possibilities for this weekend- possibly getting dinner with Philip on Saturday, lots of shopping, and tomorrow we’re trying to hit up the Qingyan Ancient Town. If we can sort out the right bus system anyways! Haha…

So we came home after getting some more snacks and food for the night. Katie trimmed my hair, yay! Then I went at the layers myself… definitely went on a bit of a joyride there, but nothing too bad happened, thank goodness! It was very refreshing after a shower and we sat together to read for the next three or so hours. She’s reading a book by Ayn Rand and I started up Game of Thrones. No idea why… It’s very odd. Nothing spectacular about it so far, I’ve read many of its similarities before. But hey if it can keep me busy for 3+ hours, I guess it’s not too bad, eh?