Breakfast time again! Could have definitely done a happy
little dance because once again, the breakfast food at the school was utterly
delightful. Just about made the whole cold trip to the school worth it,
hallelujah.
Seriously, it’s getting kinda chilly. Anyways, headed over
to the office with Katie and set to work on creating a trivia page [again] that
the kids would probably enjoy.
The good news is, trivia and games like that where I get the
kids talking is good- I’m mainly there to get them talking English, after all.
They have Chinese English Teachers to do the real business. The bad news is,
they all think it’s okay then to start shouting and jumping around. Yikes, not
really, kids! Jeesh.
Anyways, Grade 3 Class 2 was still pretty good through that.
Lunch wasn’t too bad. Though this was another point of the
cook bringing us special food… this time, popcorn chicken! We approved. And ate
it all… Ehm. Anyways, we finished up, more than stuffed from our plates plus
the one with the chicken, and so I headed back to my office and Katie headed
home to chill out.
And as I had planned out a day or two ago: I started making a
Christmas tree for our little apartment! I had done one for the office, and
wanted to surprise Katie. I made ours bigger and prettier with more assorted
[and not overly creative because I was in a bit of a hurry and I lacked decent
supplies, but hey, I tried] “ornaments.”
Then I ran down the street to grab a treat or two for her,
and ran back. Seriously, I tried running up that hill. It’s harder than it
looks and I’m never making that mistake again.
Finished, I double checked my lesson- if I plan it right, I
can do the same lesson for all three grades, and it all works very well! Who
knew? And then I read up on Green’s ‘Looking for Alaska.’ I did that for a good
hour or so until finally it was time to go teach Grade 4.
The room was dark when I walked in and I figured hey,
they’ll be here any minute, this sort of thing happens. So I started setting up
the computer when Yoyo walked by and informed me that the kids were actually
taking a math test somewhere.
Left to my own devices, I returned to the office and finally
went to teach Grade 5. Who have gotten insanely crazy and I don’t know how that
happened, I really don’t. It was nuts and ridiculous. I got them sorted out a
few times, but then more fights broke out and they didn’t pay much attention…
however I did get them while I was naming off the fingers! Funny enough that
got their attention- and I made a solid point to let them NOT do the middle
finger in the air alone, because that is BAD. But otherwise, I basically had
them crowding around me, trying to test out their knowledge- it was pretty
amusing! Goofy kids…
Grade 3 Class 3 was the best class of the day although still
a bit nuts. It turned out a little similar to Grade 5 but less fighting- and
they loved the fingers! I had a ton of them nearly tackle me, shoving their
open hands in the air in my face. Then a few of them weren’t paying attention
but quietly working on homework, which was a bit of a hassle but I checked in
on them a few times and they got a thing or two from the lesson so I called it
good.
Katie returned, but we weren’t going to the school dinner!
Instead we headed back into town to a roundabout, where I ended up getting some
nice [gangsta] sweats, and Katie bought one of the popular skirt-legging
combos. We wandered around and tried some new food. I got a omelet patty with
green things in it and a little bit of spice- they put on half for me but it
was still too much! Katie bought this weird rice cube thing… with literal
cinnamon chunks! Funky!
We got home, chilled out and headed to bed. Of course, I had
to stay up later, extra paranoid about her hearing, before laying out the tree-
I was going to put it on the wall but I thought she’d hear, so I just laid it
out on the floor… haha…
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