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Night markets Sept 3 2007
Just got back from my first experience out at the night markets. Soaked and tired. A new foreign teacher from Vancouver came on board today, and it is pretty obvious that him and I are going to be partners in crime. Lotsa drinking, lotsa exploring, lotsa trouble making with the locals. Tonight we went out tonight with a Chinese friend of "Jason's" and hit up the local markets where things are DIRT cheap...try a dozen dumplings for 1RMB (15 cents!). It was crazy and hard to explain, So many sights, sounds, smells all at once. Lets just say everything here is just like you see on tv but a thousand times more intense.
Today was my first day teaching. I ended the day feeling high and had a lot of fun with my students in every class. There is one class, my Canadian Uni. prep. grade 11 math class, who got a little unruly when it was quite obvious I had not prepared a lesson and was just flying through the first chapter of the book to make sure they were up to speed. That is the class I have every day of the week (most of the classes I teach are only 2 days a week) and I know they are way smarter than me and I will have to come prepared to every class or risk being taken over by them. Mondays I teach 9 hours in a row with a half hour lunch break. I like getting the worst day out of the way right away though. My throat is so sore from talking too much. Math is so boring I even find myself nodding off at my own voice. I have to try to incorporate some games or something for my own sake, but have only just gotten the internet. so tomorrow I will be searching for some fun math lesson plans online. The rest of my classes (science, physics and oral enrichment) are easy to wing and make up games and ideas 20 minutes before class.
I will get a camera soon. There are so many things I have seen in only 3 days that cannot be explained. I have seen, heard and smelled some of the craziest things in my life here in such a short time. I cant image how it will all come together in the end.
One last thing. Got a little smashed at dinner tonight on 58% Chinese "wine'. Only had two shots and thought I might die from burning a hole in my stomach after the second one. 500ml of it cost 4RMB. That is about one cent per drink. And it only takes two to get drunk. How brilliant would that stuff be to market to university students in Canada!?! Say good bye to Lucky Lager.
Just got back from my first experience out at the night markets. Soaked and tired. A new foreign teacher from Vancouver came on board today, and it is pretty obvious that him and I are going to be partners in crime. Lotsa drinking, lotsa exploring, lotsa trouble making with the locals. Tonight we went out tonight with a Chinese friend of "Jason's" and hit up the local markets where things are DIRT cheap...try a dozen dumplings for 1RMB (15 cents!). It was crazy and hard to explain, So many sights, sounds, smells all at once. Lets just say everything here is just like you see on tv but a thousand times more intense.
Today was my first day teaching. I ended the day feeling high and had a lot of fun with my students in every class. There is one class, my Canadian Uni. prep. grade 11 math class, who got a little unruly when it was quite obvious I had not prepared a lesson and was just flying through the first chapter of the book to make sure they were up to speed. That is the class I have every day of the week (most of the classes I teach are only 2 days a week) and I know they are way smarter than me and I will have to come prepared to every class or risk being taken over by them. Mondays I teach 9 hours in a row with a half hour lunch break. I like getting the worst day out of the way right away though. My throat is so sore from talking too much. Math is so boring I even find myself nodding off at my own voice. I have to try to incorporate some games or something for my own sake, but have only just gotten the internet. so tomorrow I will be searching for some fun math lesson plans online. The rest of my classes (science, physics and oral enrichment) are easy to wing and make up games and ideas 20 minutes before class.
I will get a camera soon. There are so many things I have seen in only 3 days that cannot be explained. I have seen, heard and smelled some of the craziest things in my life here in such a short time. I cant image how it will all come together in the end.
One last thing. Got a little smashed at dinner tonight on 58% Chinese "wine'. Only had two shots and thought I might die from burning a hole in my stomach after the second one. 500ml of it cost 4RMB. That is about one cent per drink. And it only takes two to get drunk. How brilliant would that stuff be to market to university students in Canada!?! Say good bye to Lucky Lager.
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