winter camp

so its winter here in guzhen? its not snowy or anything, they actually dont get snow at all here. but its been pretty cold here. like all the time. and we dont have heaters. so sometimes its colder in our apartment than it is outside. (but dont worry i fixed that by buying some rice and making myself a good ol rice sock).

so for the kids its actually winter break for them. they have two weeks off.. but of course we dont. instead we do a winter teaching camp. four of us go over to an elementary school and teach from 9-11:30 in the morning and go back and teach a different set of kids from 2:30-5. now these kids we teach for the next two weeks are totally different from our regular ILP kids. They are older which made for some good challenges for us. we kind of had to reconfigure lesson plans seeing as we made them for 6 year olds not 10-11 yr olds. but our 6 year olds actually can speak better and understand more, because they've already had a semester of ILP. So this has just been a whole different experience all together. It's a tad more challenging but its good for me. and of course there are some CUTE kids! they are a little more clever and act up a bit more but they are still way way fun.

funny story of the day:

it happened in chantelle's class. So theres a kid named luke thats like a year older than the rest of the kids and lets just say he gets in a little bit of trouble and he knows exactly what he's doing. but he's way smart and really a good kid. so chantelle was working on greetings, like saying "Hi my name is_______" "It's nice to meet you"
well chantelle told luke "It's nice to meet you too."
and he just gives her the strangest look and says, "It's nice to..meet you... one?"
haha
so she had to explain what "two" and "to" were. she didnt go into "too" because she didnt want to confuse the poor child.
but it was funny.

and random item of the day. so there's things that happen here that just make me laugh out loud. well we're walking home from school today and theres a construction site right across from our apartments that we walk by everyday. Theres an entry way and then the rest is fenced off. but we're walking home today and we look and theres just a random chicken standing in the middle of the entrance. just standing there, not a care in the world. thats the first chicken i've seen just walking around, there arent wild chickens here or anything. so it just gave us a good laugh.

oh and we got a whole little fish today for lunch.. and you know, it wasnt half bad.


(picture of boys and girls standing against a wall: left to right: vicky, alice (cutest and smartest of them all), cody (one of my favorites), joe and lance)
(picture of boys and girls sitting-in the front left to right: cody, tony-in the back: mary and jackie who are siblings)
(picture of girls sitting-front left to right: Sally, Bailey-in the back: Amy and Nikki)