On Friday the Kindergarten put my class on a bus and sent us to the movies. Apparently we were limited on our movie options....but as I am unable to read or speak Chinese, I had no idea what movie we were about to watch. It ended up being a Chinese film about an EARTHQUAKE called AfterShock. The first part was really scary and then it got really boring really fast. The two youngest kids were bouncing up and down on their seats and tickling each other. Alex, one of my students, was transporting jelly beans back and forth from my bag (on one end of the row), past about 6 people that weren't in our group, to the kids at the other end of the row. It's a wonder that we didn't get kicked out.
We ended up leaving the movie early. Once outside, we found out that there wasn't anybody coming to pick us up. We had been left to find our own ride back to the Kindergarten. We all squished into a taxi and made it back to the school just in time for Alex to catch his bus and for the rest of the kids to get picked up by their parents.
It's so weird to me that the kindergarten would 1. send us to a freaky chinese movie, and 2. leave us to find our own way home.
Saturday, July 31, 2010
Thursday, July 29, 2010
Little Squeals and Happy Meals
Today was crack up! so the end of the year school field trip with the kids was to. . . McDonalds. Ha!
It was great. So to start they cram 3 class all together on one bus to drive us to Mickey D's. There were 3 kids to every seat and all the teachers had to just stand in the aisles on the bus.
Once we got to McDonalds we had the funnest time trying to keep all the kids under control while we walked in. Once we finally got them all to sit down they brought in the burgers. It was so funny to see all these little kids with ketchup all over their faces and french fry grease on their shirts.
After they finished eating their food they were allowed like 3 minutes to run through the play place. That was hilarious. Pretty much the kids rushed the play place and they all got stuck trying to squeeze through the slide and they spent the entire 3 minutes just stuck there until the teachers went and started pulling them out.
One of the little kids from my class managed to sneak up the slide and wouldn't come out so I went in after him. I climbed up the slide and grabbed him and pushed him down the slide and flew down after him cuz I knew that as soon as he hit the bottom he would bolt and try to run into the play place again. I was right, he was already on his way in when I caught him by his ankle and flipped him right off his feet and held him upside down in the air.
We took pictures with the kids and Samantha's class was a crack up. Her kids were in the most random poses, just like the latest Nielsen family picture :) ha!
Tuesday, July 27, 2010
Squirt Guns and Little Squirts
Ha! Well today was a Blast! Samantha and I got to school this morning and all of a sudden music started playing over the intercom system in the school and all the kids and teachers came running out of their class rooms for a water fight with the entire school,the principal teachers, students, nurses, security guards, lunch ladies, they were all there and it was great.
The school had turned on the FIRE HOSES at the school and were using them to fill buckets and garbage cans that everyone could refill their water guns in but soon we got a hold of them and we were using the Fire Hoses to Hose down the students and faculty.
The best was when the school nurse came out to play and she wore her Nurse's Uniform thinking that "No one would squirt me if I'm in my Nurse Uniform" Hwa hwa hwa that didn't stop us one bit. As soon as she stepped onto the play ground she got a bucket dumped right on her head. Ha!
Some of the teachers thought they could escape the soggy charade by hiding out on the second floor using the fire hose to squirt us down below, well think again, we grabbed our guns and buckets and had them soaked in No time.
It was just some good old fashon fun, it was just hilarious to see the security guards still decked out in their uniforms squirting kids with their own squirt guns and to see the principal of the school running around with a bucket full of water dumping it on unsuspecting people who were filling their guns back up in the buckets. FUN FUN FUN!!!
The school had turned on the FIRE HOSES at the school and were using them to fill buckets and garbage cans that everyone could refill their water guns in but soon we got a hold of them and we were using the Fire Hoses to Hose down the students and faculty.
The best was when the school nurse came out to play and she wore her Nurse's Uniform thinking that "No one would squirt me if I'm in my Nurse Uniform" Hwa hwa hwa that didn't stop us one bit. As soon as she stepped onto the play ground she got a bucket dumped right on her head. Ha!
Some of the teachers thought they could escape the soggy charade by hiding out on the second floor using the fire hose to squirt us down below, well think again, we grabbed our guns and buckets and had them soaked in No time.
It was just some good old fashon fun, it was just hilarious to see the security guards still decked out in their uniforms squirting kids with their own squirt guns and to see the principal of the school running around with a bucket full of water dumping it on unsuspecting people who were filling their guns back up in the buckets. FUN FUN FUN!!!
Saturday, July 24, 2010
We're In China!
Nihao!
Lance and I are in China!
We'll keep you updated on all of our "where the heck are we...? safaris." In fact, we just had one today! We were walking around Guangzhou City, trying to find an electronics mall we thought was on Beijing Lu....well we never found the electronics mall, but we got to do some sight seeing. We ended up walking to a place called Martyrs Park. It is a beautiful garden with lily pads and roses. We'll definitely be going back to investigate it some more!
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