Week One Over
Apart from avoiding to use the bathroom in the school， the first week here has been fantastic！ As most of you know I have been teaching english to teachers. As I have discovered this week, most of them have not been practising or using English since their days in middle or high school. Most of them have been told that they will be teaching English to their students this coming September as a new requirement to their teaching repetoire. Unfortunately they have had only 6 months of prior training in English. That's the way it works here. So in these weeks we can only do our best to reinforce the English that they do know and get them to practice speaking it over and over.
Its been a great experience, which has giving me more confidence being up their teaching as well as peace in this coming year. I already think that my stomach is accostume to the usual food that the people eat here. The only thing that I would need encouragment in would be to make sure that I don't get burnt out. The team and here right now have been pulling 10 hour days so that's something that I have to watch for when I start in September.
Today we went to a "Forest Park" about an hour away from the city. There were Monkey's, Snakes, and other exotic fauna that one would expect to see when coming to a location such as this. Again I have seen the ingenuity of the Chinese when it comes to making money. There was a exotic bird exhibit with all sorts of ... birds... which were trained to fly to the audience member who were holding at least 10 or more yuan... (dollars) They they would take the money and fly it back to their trainer, genius! Then we watched an elephant show with REAL elephants! The trainers called us to feed the elephants for 10 yuan. Okay so, We pay you and we get food to feed your elephants? So you don't need to spend any money on food at the same time you make money? I'm in, I'm goona get me a St. Bernard and the next time you see me, if you give me $5 bucks i'll let you feed my dog! Sound good?
PS. No time for uploading pictures, you'll have to wait till I get back to Hong Kong.
Its been a great experience, which has giving me more confidence being up their teaching as well as peace in this coming year. I already think that my stomach is accostume to the usual food that the people eat here. The only thing that I would need encouragment in would be to make sure that I don't get burnt out. The team and here right now have been pulling 10 hour days so that's something that I have to watch for when I start in September.
Today we went to a "Forest Park" about an hour away from the city. There were Monkey's, Snakes, and other exotic fauna that one would expect to see when coming to a location such as this. Again I have seen the ingenuity of the Chinese when it comes to making money. There was a exotic bird exhibit with all sorts of ... birds... which were trained to fly to the audience member who were holding at least 10 or more yuan... (dollars) They they would take the money and fly it back to their trainer, genius! Then we watched an elephant show with REAL elephants! The trainers called us to feed the elephants for 10 yuan. Okay so, We pay you and we get food to feed your elephants? So you don't need to spend any money on food at the same time you make money? I'm in, I'm goona get me a St. Bernard and the next time you see me, if you give me $5 bucks i'll let you feed my dog! Sound good?
PS. No time for uploading pictures, you'll have to wait till I get back to Hong Kong.
posted by Chris at 5:15 AM
1 Comments:
avoiding the bathrooms?? haha...where have i heard that one before...oh yeah, me, when i was in china. lol.
don't get burnt out, keep on plugging into the "source"!
how's AF and her family doing?? :P
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