Teaching! This is class 6, one of my favorites. The past Friday, Brian, my contact teacher, had asked if he could video tape one of my classes. He ended up taping one on Friday and this one. I was doing a Jeopardy quiz show lesson that turned a bit into mass chaos. The questions ranged from what they were learning in their books to grammar to random questions about America. Fuat and Ginny, one of Fuat's Chinese teachers, came and watched. Fuat wanted to see how well Jeopardy worked to see if he could do it in his classes. He kindly agreed to take some pictures while he was there.
It was a sunny day so I went to the park to read and work on lesson plans instead of sitting in my room. It was full of people. There were card players, kite fliers, roller skaters, and paddle boat rowers. I definitely got some stares sitting on the middle island with my computer but I liked feeling a part of the Sunday afternoon crowd.
Bringing new life onto the bus.
Game night! The g/jens hosted a fantastical evening that included Round 2 of Carrie's Queries (the game I created for Jen's birthday), Teledraw, King's Cup, AND the Great Dalmuti!!! Who can ask for anything else? That plus some great people made the perfect Saturday night.
A really pretty plant that I've never seen before. It seems to produce fruit like raspberries...and for all I know this is what our raspberry trees in America look like. But it was new to me so I took a picture.
We all had to go to Chinese class today to pick up a refund from our program but didn't actually have class. Since we were all together and had some time, we decided to head to the local park and play some frisbee. Using a round disk to pass around to each other is not an activity that is done in China. They have no idea what a frisbee is and therefore we had even more people sitting around staring than usual. Once in awhile we'd even have one guy curious enough to come play with us for a little bit. Afterward we played touch football and then went and got dinner.
A very depressing evening. I sat down and calculated about how much money I was going to be making before I leave China and about how much I need for when I get back to the States. The numbers don't quite match... The lack of money I will have overwhelmed me so much I just got in bed and watched a movie.
I've been wanting to see if it would be possible to make some American dishes using the woks. So Fuat and I took a Monday evening to give it a try. We successfully made some great spaghetti with full blown meat sauce. It could have used a little bit of spices, but for the most part it was very tasty. The next step is to invite some of our chinese teachers over and cook some authentic American cuisine for them.
The Shenzhen metro platforms are an area for some creative design. Each platform has it's own unique set of seats provided to help the weary travelers. This group is my favorite. There are about five seats and they are all shaped into different keys on a computer keyboard.
I was headed over to Leah's for a movie party and had some time to kill so I stopped by the mall. There was a wonderful art exhibit going on of sewed paintings. There were many framed finished products but also, all around the exhibit were women making new creations. I found out that they cheat a little bit - all of the canvases have pictures printed on them and the women sew the right colors in the right places. From what I could tell though, there weren't specific stitch lengths or color descriptions so I think/hope there was still a little bit of talent that went into these beautiful works.
I finally got my library card!! Jess and I went to the beautiful Shenzhen library, handed over our 200 kuai deposit, showed them our passports, and walked away with access to the many foreign books the building has to offer.
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