buh bye andrew

because of high demand i'm going to try to do this everyday

cute kid story of the day:
i'm teaching drama and kitchen this week (we each have two subjects) and for drama i did mary had a little lamb. i made a little lamb hat with ears on it from paper and cotton balls and had the lamb where that and then we have wigs and costumes, so i had mary wear a blonde wig. the kids were hillarious. apple was in the first class i did it with and he played the lamb and when i asked him what do lambs say its stick his tongue out kind of and make a loud "baaaaa" sound. even if i gave him a line to say, he'd still just make the noise.
i also switched the story a bit. so we have a strike system with the kids where they get a strike if they break a rule. 3 strikes, you're out, 4 strikes you dont get store (prizes redeemed for the tokens they got that day) and then i dont know how it happened but 10 strikes, and we throw you out the window (we're on the second story). so whenever we go over the rules they always shout at us "10 strikes!! 10 strikes!" and we're like "yea, 10 strikes and we throw you out the window" and they started this funny thing, theres a kid andrew who always gets a bunch of strikes, so they started saying "buh-bye andrew" in a higher voice as they wave out the window and then they do a soaring noise and then a andrew-just-got-squished-on-the-ground-dying noise. its funny. (teachers have been known to get thrown out of a window too "buh-bye teacher jessica...) so part of the mary had a little lamb was the teacher threw the lamb out the window and we all said, "buh-bye laaaaamb." it was way cute.

oh and chantelle made two kids cry today. ha ha. okay so she didnt make them cry, they just cried in her class, and it was two of the boys. one of them had this chapstick thing that he would not give to chantelle and she gave him a strike and got stern with him and he still wouldnt give it to her. we think he might've taken his mom's or something because when she finally took it he just broke down and started sobbing. so chantelle let him go put it in his packpack instead and that seemed to calm him down a bit. but it was just kind of funny. and then the class right after that paul started crying because chantelle wouldnt let him go to the bathroom. they get to go one time during class (it used to be 2 but they abused that priveledge). and so paul had already gone and he asked to go again so chantelle told him he already went his one time. and i guess that really upset him. i dont think he had to go it was just that he couldnt. he kept saying "teacher? bathroom?" in the sad puppy dog eyed way. and started crying. so chantelle had a bit of a rough day. i have kitchen this week which pretty much makes me the favorite and most anticipated teacher to get to through the rotations.

we're going to xiaolan tonite for FHE with the xiaolan group. we take a free shuttle that drops us off like 5 minutes from their school in front of this huge shopping mall. but its funny because when we have the catch the one back, its the last one for the night so theres a mass of people outside waiting for their bus. and as soon as they see which one they need they start booking it into the streets, barely letting the bus pull in. so its always an adventure. people dont know what lines are in china. people just cut anyone at anytime and nobody seems to care, but when you need to get on a shuttle, its do or die. its funny because people are shoving us as we're trying to make sure all of us get on and i'm usually just laughing because none of these little guys are getting past me. and its just a swarm of people just to cram themselves into the tiny space of the bus door. so yea. mondays are pretty much an adventure.
wish us luck that we all make it on tonite :)