Christmas Eve!
Weirdest Christmas season ever. I mean, we’ve tried but it’s
just not the same. Still, it was super cute through the day with kids wearing
little Christmas hats and such, telling us Merry Christmas and Happy New year,
so cute!
We ate breakfast at the school, not too shabby, and headed
to our offices. Luckily I had remembered to bring two bags of candy, pennies
and pictures for kids! Grade 3 Class 2 was my first class of the day and it was
the last time I was going to teach them. Ever. I was dreading telling them,
trust me.
Anyways, I spent a while writing little notes and my QQ
number on the back of my pictures before class started. My kids were going a
bit nutty, but I got them calmed down and promised them candy if they were
good.
They were a bit bored with the Christmas lesson- I just had
a ton of pictures of gingerbread houses, drinks, Santa, and so on. But I got
them using a few words and that helped! And then towards the end of class, I
pulled up my slide [we had ten minutes ago and I wanted to give them a DVD],
and then I got kids almost in tears because yes, I’m leaving and they’ll never
see me again! And I’ll never see them again!
It was so sad and terrible. I had a kid or two return the
snowflakes I’d cut out for the class- over forty! But only for that class
because they’re that awesome- for me to keep which was precious. I got all my kids to write down their names on
pieces of paper and tried getting a few pictures but they started mobbing me a
bit and it got a bit nutty so we had to stop.
Took forever but I got most of them back in their seats and
as the bell rang, I hurriedly passed around my pictures, pennies, and candy. I
had a lot of the girls wrapping up my picture and then kissing it and giving me
the sweetest, most tender looks and I was trying to keep my heart from
breaking. The only good outcome was that I managed not to cry, basically. That
is all. It was terrible!
Then lunch time, that was okay.
Katie left after that, and I headed back to the office to
chill out and write on more pictures. Turns out I brought almost one hundred
more than I needed. But I went to work on writing them- and kids love coming in
and taking one or two, so they’re going away pretty well!
However, since we were going to do Christmas together after
morning classes the following day- Christmas!- I needed to get some more things
at the store. I also planned a little surprise- a poem at her chair after her
class, and then getting her lunch as part of her Christmas gift [she can’t fit
anything more in her bags and there’s just about nothing she wants, and I
already had a main thing for her], so I ran down to the grocery store.
I was super paranoid the whole time, wondering if she was
there or not. Turns out, she’d been there and gone back home shortly before I
left the school. Good thing I didn’t end up going a few minutes after her! She
was paranoid as well, haha… Anyways, I got her a handy dandy pen because she
likes the pens here, a cute very Chinese blue high lighter, then a boba hot
drink, noodle bowl and a milk as well.
There was a Watermelon flavored soda so I bought that to
enjoy later, yay!
I carried everything back to the school and hid them in my
desk. I fiddled around with my things for a while before finally having to go
teach class!
Grade 4 was nutty.
Kids ‘conducting’- four boys- but more than anything they keep the fights
going, the kids talking, and it doesn’t help at all. I told the kids I was
giving them grades, and tried to use that as leverage as Katie had to keep them
behaving, but that didn’t do too much good. I got a kid to read the names out
loud, but we ended up getting like four kids crowding around, one of whom ended
smacking him in the face! So I sent him to the hospital- poor boy was in tears-
and they go the school hospital for everything- and found another kid to call
the list and make the other children sit down.
That took a while, and then we did the trivia game. Which
went pretty good with them, but a little nutty as usual. They got a short DVD
at the end, and we watched clips of the The Grinch before finally leaving at
the ring of the bell.
I hurried, switched a few things and headed over to Grade 5.
Yay.
They were almost as good as they were at the very beginning!
It was pretty impressive and confusing. But it may have helped that I offered
them candy on Friday if they were good, so… yeah. Yay! Anyways, so we did the
trivia game which went pretty well and kept things going okay for the majority
of class- and for the first time in forever, they got a DVD piece! I think they
really enjoyed that…
Again I hurried to my office after the bell to switch books
and head over to Grade 3 Class 3 which was pretty chaotic as it has recently
become. We did the trivia game though that usually gets me a tiny bit of
control. They love games like that, and it keeps them talking in English which
is even better! Although I think they were still a little nutty so we didn’t
end up watching any DVD for that class.
Finished with my final Tuesday, I went down to the bus stop
to meet Katie, and we boarded the bus to get good seats and head into town for
dinner! Of course to the corner for our favorite dumplings, yay! We went and
bought chocolate drinks, and then we went to our dumpling place! They’re
seriously the best dumplings and the best people, seriously. Some of the girls
there ended up giving us these paper roses. A big thing they seem to do for
Christmas? That and wrapped up apples! [The Chinese word peace sounds like
apples or something like that?]
It was so sweet of them!
We headed home shortly after, warming up on the heater to
watch How The Grinch Stole Christmas. Which Katie has never seen! That’s so
crazy… well, the human one- she has seen the cartoon one. But yeah, we enjoyed
that in the warmth of my bedroom and with the heater! It was pretty swell! It
was a ton of fun watching the movie.
Also, she had an early gift for me… her gray sweater that I
had been interested in, along with her sketchpad! It was super sweet of her.
Although she still has to draw me something in that notebook, ehm… but still.
It was sweet! So I concluded the little ‘4 Weeks of Christmas’ that I had been
doing for her… basically just another candy. Yay… haha.
Then we called it a night! A decently boring Christmas Eve,
hallelujah.
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