Saturday, January 8, 2011

China Update

Miracles do exist!!! We were able to change our flight to 6pm for only about $25 a person. No idea how that happened since previous calls told us it'd be $300+. And we have our visas, so now we're all set!!! Just gotta wait a month. Ha

This month is going to be very very busy as we are now doing intensives, or workshops the kids can attend while they are on winter holiday. I'm teaching a reading class to a handful of young boys early in the morning. Most are very eager to talk, which is good, but not necessarily about what's on topic, or in Korean, so it's been quite tiring. I teach the intensives Monday Wednesday Friday 10am-1pm and then teach regular classes 4pm-10pm, except now my second Monday/Friday class is combined with another teacher's so I actually get to go home earlier. Yay! But Wednesday is a longggg day. I also had to teach this Saturday morning, or well, more like proctor, as students retook some tests to help raise their averages. Sooo ready for a day just to sleeeeep.

Oh, and this week I happened to open one of the windows to cool off the room only to see one of the MIA pencil cases chillin in the snow. Tempted to hold it for ransom... speaking of the said pencil cases, this week the reading class had to create their own fantasy lit-inspired movie plot. Kyle and Mark made themselves the heroes (of course) and I was their dragon they could summon to help them save all pencil cases of the world. Great.

Hope everyone's first week of the New Year went well!

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