winter camp week two

so during this winter camp there are two schools and two different sets of kids. Last week chantelle and me and two other teachers went over to the primary school and taught one set of kids in the morning and another set of kids in the afternoon. They are older than what we were used to but its was nice. With any age group they have their pros and cons. But this week Chantelle and I are at the kindergarten (our original school) with two kids from our original before winter camp set of kids, mike, the quiet chubby kid and karen the screecher drama queen who we figured out resembles a koala bear. haha. its true. and now we have 2 other kids a girl named angel (one of the cutest yet) and tim (a rambunctious little fellow who i found out really likes to be called tim tim). so we teach the same four kids morning and afternoon today and tomorrow and then we'll finish out the rest of the week back at the primary school. shorts of the day: karen first of all wore a scarf today and it kept falling off and each time gave her a panic attack followed by scream-crying. that was fun. until lucy took her scarf away and she really had a fit but had her cry then came back to the group and forgot all about it. she also, i've noticed, likes to pick her nose and eat it. which is pretty much just the biggest gross factor. and today she had a lot of boogers in her nose, one she kept breathing in and out (i know, gross right?). so chantelle brings over a kleenex for her and karen just takes it and blows her nose as hard as she can and boogers just go ALL OVER her face. it was disgusting. but just wait, then she starts licking her face! and i'm telling her "no karen! gross! no!" and trying to wipe it up before she licks anymore. it was just gusting. and mike today was just being weird. when i had him before this winter camp he was just really shy and didnt want to participate or do anything and he'd just mumble along the english. but today he was off in mikeland just humming away to himself, finding little pieces of paper to fidget with. i had to snap my fingers a couple times to bring him into reality. so little tim. ha. oh tim. so i figured out that he is one cool kid. like we can joke around with him but he still pays attention. We were doing opening and he looked at me and smiled so i winked at him and thought nothing of it. but then i look at him a couple second later and he's squinting and holding one eye down with his finger. it was so cute. so the whole afternoon session i would look at him and wink. we really hope he's in the ilp program after this winter camp. def one of my favorites. oh and funny story of the day. so chantelle and i got done teaching in the morning and we get done at 10:40 so we go up to get our lunchpales to bring them down to the kitchen and we drop them off and go back to the elevator (we live on the 7th floor) and there was no way there was enough time for the elevator to go anywhere. we get to it and it says its on floor one and right before i got to press the up button it says that its headed up. so i think it went up a foot before it came back down. and it opens up and there's some lady in it!?!? there was no way it could've gone anywhere. it said it was on the first floor the entire time. so this crazy old magical appearing lady walks out kind of chuckling and just says over and over "oh! ni hoa, ni hoa!". chantelle and me get in the elevator and we're just like um.. there was no way this elevator went anywhere! and we just busted up laughing because i'm pretty sure that lady just aparated out of nowhere. oh china.. okay and to explain the pictures. so we teach at a kindergarten and not all the classrooms were like this but the one we use to teach in for this week is specialized for the little little guys. its cute, but terribly inconvenient when all that is there is little sized tables and chairs. but we go into the bathroom and there lined up are the tiniest toilets and tinest urinals i have ever seen!! it was too cute chantelle and me couldnt resist not getting a picture. i mean i knew i was going to feel big going to china...but not this big ;) enjoy

(and the video is of our alarm clock? haha. no. not funny. seriously it pounds nonstop it wakes us up, it keeps us awake and it literally shakes our building like we can see the room shake. dont worry mom, i'm sure the building is stable ;)