I can't believe it's November already! Time flies...sometimes. It's been an interesting few days. I went to the market yesterday. I understood what two people asked me! I unfortunately did not know that it was sausage-making day in the market. The parts of the market that sell meat are gross as it is. It's a little like living in Upton Sinclair's world with pieces of animals laid on on tables all over the place and blood on the ground and flies and stench. Seeing them make sausage is 15 times worse...and at the same time, I was a little disappointed I forgot my camera. It's kind of like a car wreck--you can't look away.
Last night, we went to a Halloween party at the English Salon. We told ghost stories and helped with trick or treating and learned Halloween poems. There were probably close to 60 students there, and we had a lot of fun. After the party, Kris and Liz and I went to dinner with some of our students--Robert, Seb, Karrah, and Claire. Kris, Liz, and I got the giggles at the beginning of dinner, and we laughed our way through the whole meal. Nothing was really all that funny, but the combination of us mishearing each other (Kris thought "Pachelbel" was "Taco Bell") and things the students did kept us cracking up the whole time. That's probably the last time they ever eat with us :) The picture in this blog is of us at dinner. It's the first time we've ever gotten to sit on the couch at our restaurant!
On to happenings in class...on Tuesday, I had it in my head that my class started at 2:15. It's a long story, but I had a relatively logical reason for thinking that. I got to class...and my class wasn't there. They weren't around the corner, they weren't in the other room, they were just...gone. I looked at my watch to make sure I wasn't an hour early, and then I thought really hard about what day it was. I finally came to the conclusion that I was in fact in the right place at the right time. I was just...student-less. I decided it must be some crazy Chinese thing that I didn't understand, so I went home. I finally was told that class is actually at 2:10, and my students didn't see me so they left. I am now instating a "you must wait 15 minutes AFTER the bell before you can leave" rule.
Today in the same class (I teach them 3 times a week), when the room was fairly quiet, one of my students burst into song. Really loudly. I was laughing so hard I was crying. I had to turn around to regain my composure. I have no idea why he did that, but it made my day. Probably embarrassed the heck out of him, but oh well. I chuckled all the way through the first lesson.
Anyway, there is no logical train of thought whatsoever in this, so I am going to end it before it gets uglier. Have a lovely day!
posted by Sara @ 3:33 AM
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