Time to Teach

Well we don't teach until two twenty five today so I'm not sure 

what I'm going to do until then. Next week some of the mornings 

we will teach classes but idk what the schedule really is yet. 

I might have to start working on next weeks lessons. I've been 

playing diner dash for last hour or so. Haha it's so fun being 

here. I wish we were closer to a city or something. We are pretty 

much in the middle of no where with no way to travel right now. 

This next weekend we are suppose to be going to a city and one of 

our coordinator people, Angel, is going to take us shopping! :)

I'm pretty nervous to teach. This being the first day and all. 

They say the first 2 weeks is the hardest. I have a feeling we will 

mostly be teaching behavior and trying to get control. We will be 

instilling the routine in the next couple of weeks. Oh man, I hope 

it all goes well. I'll have to do a bit of praying the whole time. 

Who knows how it will be. One side of me thinks maybe they will be 

alright because I think they have been through one semester of ILP. 

The other side of me is thinking it doesnt matter even if they did 

because we are new teachers and they are still going to be kids! :)

Today the Chinese coordinator girl (whose name you need to remember 

because she is the funniest little thing and I will mention her 

often), ANGEL, asked if Bryndi wanted some rolls to take back to the 

apartment and Bryndi said sure. So Angel was asking how many she 

wanted and started joking around. Well...she ended up with ten rolls 

and Angel was telling her to put then in her pockets but Bryndi 

wanted to just take the bowl and bring it back to the cafeteria 

later. Hahaha Angel forced her to hide them in her jacket. ( still 

in the bowl though) hahaha so sneaky. Ten rolls and a bowl, it's 

pretty obvious but we made it out and Bryndi still has her fingers. 

Oh Chinese people are hilarious. The ones I've met so far, take 

everything that is free that they can stow away. Extra food from the 

cafeteria, extra toothpicks from a restraunt, and packs of tissue 

from another dinner. So crazy. Ashley Mitchell, the head teacher 

from Az that has been to china before, told me that the people are 

so chill and stuff but what I've seen is more like-rush rush rush, 

cut in line, go go go, take what you can get. Always giving though. 

It is pretty funny. Oh and the staring. That is Kim's , my head 

teacher, favorite. People stop just to stare at us. Many don't try 

to hide it. They just walk right around us staring like we are 

aliens. Hahaha I don't mind too much because I feel like doing the 

same to all of them. It just gets awkward sometimes and im surprised 

that so many don't even try to hide it. :) welcome to China. One 

cool thing is that when students walk by, most of them know how to 

greet you. Saying hello, hi, teacher, and things like that. The 

little kids are the cutiest! You see them standing in line, three 

year olds, and their heads just follow as you walk by but adorable 

faces. :)