My students are amazing!!! I love my new classes, and the kids are awesome. But boy am I tired! 9 classes this week and I rubbed a blister on my foot. 😦 But on the great side I went for dinner tonight with some friends from last semester. Totally delicious, Spicy, and fun!! I love my students 🙂 Oh and I got an award. 🙂 Now time for rest, rio, and grading!
If you ever visit or teach in China, knowing the characters for Male and Female can be very helpful. On your school roster, It’s often very hard to know if the student’s name is for a Boy or girl. So most roster’s tell you – Male or female. It also helps if you Don’t want to enter the wrong Bathroom by accident. They don’t tell you in English 😛
男 = Nan (2) = Male
女 = Nv (3) = Female
My Chinese friend called today asking to hang out. When I asked what was up, she said she intended to go home today but her brother called and warned her not to travel today. Apparently today the province is celebrating the Hungry Ghost Festival.
It falls on the 15th of the 7th lunar month. According to my friend, they believe that today many ghosts are able to travel around the country. This is why my friend couldn’t travel- she has to leave the way clear for the ghosts instead. Instead many adherents will go to the graves and leave lots of food for the hungry wanderers to eat.
Our Delicious Dumplings 🙂
They also make hand-made traditional dumplings out of long noodles. They are long so you can wrap up your ancestral ghosts in the strand and keep them close to you in the future. Funnily enough, we went to the little Chinese garden here and ran into 5-6 grandfathers out with their grandkids. They had been tasked with entertaining the kids while grandma made the dumplings. To participate, my friend and I had beef dumplings at the local street market and she promised to wait until tomorrow to go home :p
4 Year old and her 6.5 year old sister. The older sister starts English classes tomorrow, and they both knew the ABC song!
Twin 4-year olds. They start Kindergarten this year and are excellent Bubble-blowers!
Chinese version of Chicken Noodle Soup – great for a day of exam writing!
Had some delicious Egg Drop Soup in a Chinese Restaurant before I came home. Then saw the American Chinese version. Not even comprable!
“She was free in her wildness. She was a wanderess, a drop of free water. She belonged to no man and to no city” ~ Roman Payne
Language Translation
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