Hey guys!
I woke up this morning and realized that I never sent an email on Sunday. Oops!
Life here has been pretty good! I don't think anything too exciting has happened. We thought we were going to start teaching on the first, but it turns out that the school we are working with wantes us to do some training and a promotional thing first. So Thursday and Friday we practiced a lesson that we had to do on Saturday for the promo class. We went to a different city on Saturday and we each taught a class with about 20 kids in it. The nerve racking part was that the parents were sitting there watching the whole thing. And based off of what we did they would decide if they wanted to join this school or not. Why they decided to have the newbies do that I have no idea.
At first we did not like that idea. Mostly because we still had no clue what was going on. But the teaching was so fun! The kids are so cute! They get so excited to see a white person but then get so shy when you acknowledge them.
Side note: When we are walking down the street we will see kids gasping and pointing at us so we make a point to wave and say hi. Some of the kids love it! Others end up hiding behind their moms legs. Its fun to see their different reactions.
I woke up this morning and realized that I never sent an email on Sunday. Oops!
Life here has been pretty good! I don't think anything too exciting has happened. We thought we were going to start teaching on the first, but it turns out that the school we are working with wantes us to do some training and a promotional thing first. So Thursday and Friday we practiced a lesson that we had to do on Saturday for the promo class. We went to a different city on Saturday and we each taught a class with about 20 kids in it. The nerve racking part was that the parents were sitting there watching the whole thing. And based off of what we did they would decide if they wanted to join this school or not. Why they decided to have the newbies do that I have no idea.
At first we did not like that idea. Mostly because we still had no clue what was going on. But the teaching was so fun! The kids are so cute! They get so excited to see a white person but then get so shy when you acknowledge them.
Side note: When we are walking down the street we will see kids gasping and pointing at us so we make a point to wave and say hi. Some of the kids love it! Others end up hiding behind their moms legs. Its fun to see their different reactions.
Anyway, yesterday we were finally taken to the school we would actually be teaching at. We were brought around to about 10 different kindergarten classes and told to introduce ourselves. The kids thought we were hilarious. Imagine being 3,4, and 5 years old and seeing a chinese person for the first time. Then they start to speak to you in chinese. It would sound like gibberish. That is how it was for them and the gibberish had them cracking up. They would laugh the most when they heard my name. Some of them had a hard time not falling off their chairs they were laughing so hard! We loved it. I wish I would have gotten it on camera.
Well thats about the gist of it this week! Have a great week!
Skeeter
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