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| heading off for taiwan on 2/7 for chinese new year's. my uncle is very gracious and generous!
chris has been working on the school website these past couple of months: www.szfls.net/english
right now, i'm pretty sick. :( but that's okay! | | |
| me and chris got added hours... :P
but here's an update!
we have NO internet, so chris is trying to get wireless here. hehe. i want to set up a little table and chairs to have a cafe a la Little Buji.
wah! Dongmen's MOI Dept. Store was beyond packed for its annual sale. for every 100 yuan you spend, you get a 108 yuan gift certificate that you use within that 68 hour time period. so, say i buy a 2,500 yuan pair of boots from Belle, i get a... big gift certificate :P to spend at Belle or another MOI store. the scariest thing is that all the stores share the same cashier booths (8 on each floor), so you can imagine the lines when there's more than 10,000 people crammed into the store.
we've been teaching the kids all about American schools through "High School Musical." this is an adorable film! the kids love it! by the end of the year, i'm gonna have all of them saying... "hey there, small person"... "move away, tall person!" LOL
our school had its annual sports day! here are some of our kids
class 3. she's bright! wish i remembered her name. :P
this is Amy. she refuses to talk to me in English. so i tease her a lot :D
he's bright too! and i know he has the best listening capability of all the kids, but is always messing around. so, i mess with him too! muahhhaa! lol
this is Len. he's very friendly and diplomatic. i think he'll be the president some day.
that's Ross! Class 5 English teacher and one of Chris' buddies. that little girl is very cute and bubbly too. but i can't remember her name. :P
sports day is also fun day! :)
people everywhere love to play this game and other chinese chess games.
awww....
hehe. the boy to the right is the fast runner in junior 1. he got first place in the 50m.
the teachers raced too! this is the 4x300m relay... very very tiring. the kids are awesome with their support!
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Oct. 1st was the national holiday, so we decided to throw a movie party
for the kids--popcorn, sprite, and Shark Tale, fun, fun! :D here is
class 5 at 8:40 in the morning enjoying themselves. hehe.
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| having been here for a month... 10 articles of clothing has been pretty much ruined from my washing machine--skirts, tank tops, shirts, shorts, etc...
so i decided to go clothes shopping before the same fate greeted the rest of my clothes, since they're a bit more delicate (still trying to figure out ways to salvage 3 skirts). as a teacher, i need to look nice walking around campus. this past friday, i was pretty mortified walking to the local store, because i forgot that the students would hang around waiting for their parents to pick them up, so i had on my cotton flower skirt (the one i wore all summer, haha, now with gray and blue spots from the washing machine) and a green shirt (covered with little cotton lint balls). i ran into about 20 of my students, looking like i had just put on any old clothing to clean the kitchen--20 students and a few parents.
so, i went to a local store that said they sold clothes from american name brand factories. i saw Abercrombie, Tommy, Polo, DKNY, D&G. they seemed pretty authentic to me--down to the embroidered ribbon with the logos here and there. the lady there was really nice. she asked me all about what i was doing in china and whatnot and also what each name brand meant. so i told her things like Tommy is more for people who have a sporty look, DKNY for a more princessy look. i bought a shirt that was on sale and then went to another store.
there, after buying another onsale shirt, a store clerk pounced on the plastic bag and asked where i went shopping and proceeded to tell me that all these name brand clothes are fake and that i would have to spend hundreds and thousands of US dollars to buy real ones in a posh district somewhere downtown. she said that i was ripped off, but the other lady didn't make a profit either at the sale price.
i told her how my clothes were all ruined and she told me that's what happens when you buy clothes in China. they last 3 washes and you throw them away. i explained to her that they were clothes from the US and i didnt have that problem before.
so now, i'm not quite sure what to think.
i hope to find a decent brand here at a decent cost that won't be ruined. but if my nice American clothes are getting ruined... is it the washing machine? is it the water? is it the clothes?
we also do have a friendly laundromat around the corner, so i'm thinking maybe i'll need to have everything washed there. but that will raise the cost of living. sigh.
things will work out. :)
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