My First Chinese Class!
While I teach here in Xi'an, my school gives me the opportunity to take lessons in Chinese. This week I started! I meet twice a week for an hour with two different teachers and the classes are one-on-one. It's definitely intense and it would be a little intimidating, but thanks to my two years of study at Western Washington University, I am able to spend the whole hours speaking only Chinese (I was even able to skip the first book and start in the second). I have been dieing to get these classes started and I already feel like I've learn so much after one week!
Class Party!
As a reward system (or punishment... depending on behavior...), my students receive a star rating for each day: 5 for a perfect day and 0 for the worse day EVER (I've only given out a 4 star day yet). In addition, they can gain or lose stars for they behavior during the day.

Getting Sick... FINALLY
I've managed to be completely healthy this first month in China. I've continually heard about people getting sick from my coworkers and other travelers to China and i was starting to wonder if I had missed it all together!
That was arrogant of me.
Thursday, I was exhausted. It was like I had a really bad cold, but no symptoms- I didn't have a runny nose, sore throat, fever, etc.- my body was just tired. I managed to get through the day and fell asleep very early.
Friday I felt great! So, naturally, I ate nothing but pizza and sweets (thanks to party day) and
Another big accomplishment for the week was ordering Chinese food from a restaurant with Cari that had no pictures! Normally, I restrict my dining to places with a pictured menu so I can point and grunt at things I want, but on Friday Cari and I took a chance and we managed to orders some really good tasting food! It was a big step for me.
Well, like I said, short and not horribly interesting. This week is a vacation for me so I'll hopefully have some more exciting stories for next week. Although, no promises- it's feeling pretty nice just relaxing!
Thanks for reading!
5 comments:
BT-
Whats going on? Its good to read up on how things are going over there. I am adding this blog to my favorites so I will be able to check it more. Looks like you are really enjoying yourself. Your kids look like a ton of fun, and the classroom looks great too!
I spoke with my Dad this morning and talked about you for a little bit. Let me know if you need anything in particular. Phanco/Weaver/Harem 19.
-Jeff Jeremiah
You're excited to hear about WAMU going under??? that's kind of morbid!
Poor Brad! NO MORE BU! Sounds like a sweet movie.
-T. Matt
Bradley!!! HEllo from the ROCK!!!
: ) Quick question. What e-mail are you using? I'm enjoying reading your blog. Enjoy your vaca!!! -AMy
wow! and chili after the diarrhea? what a trooper!
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