This morning was pretty calm with our usual waking up at 6:30, meeting Don and the teacher downstairs at 7:30, then off to the school. Somehow we got to the school 20 minutes before the class actually started. That set a new record.
The classes went pretty smoothly. We did our normal routine of introductions, pronunciations, drawing game, Simon says, break, homonyms, sentence contest, and the Hokey Pokey. The drawing game was a little confusing to explain this time, especially because even the teacher didn't understand. We later found out that the teacher didn't actually work there. Finally, LuRue got the point across by picking up someone's paper, doing an example, then walking around the room with it. We added more to the houses this time, because after the explanation process, people really seemed to get into it. We have already done a few changes to the drawing game and we'll see if it works better tomorrow. We asked people in both classes to perform something for us at the very end. In the second class, no one was brave enough to come up. However, in the first class one young man came up and performed a part of the American song "All of Me" by John Legend.
Everyone went back to the hotel and met up for a quick lunch, because we needed some time to get everything together for the meeting with a new school at 2:10. Today had definitely been a "keep us on our feet" day. As Montana said, "It's like we're being tailgated by the future."
We were led to a classroom that was set up like our other welcoming - a circle of tables in the center for the important people like us and the teachers, then a half-circle in the back for the others- the students. It started with self introductions and a group photo, then LuRue went into talking about what it's like in Alaska, which led into Montana showing her Tanzania and India videos. Don got up and got everyone to sing, "I'm a Little Teapot". The rest of the class was spent by having people ask us questions, most of which Don answered, because there were questions Montana or LuRue didn't exactly know how to answer. One student even got up to sing "Hey Jude" by the Beatles.
The group was escorted back by a teacher who gave us each a bag of red tea, which neither Montana or LuRue had ever heard of. They had an hour to start blogs and prep for tomorrow before heading off to dinner. This time there were only two dishes, so most of the meals were finished. We did a review of our goals, then the group was dismissed.
Montana and LuRue went back to their room and while Montana was finishing up the blog and photo editing, LuRue created last minute costumes for our performance of "2 Tigers", the Chinese version of "Brother John", tomorrow.
The classes went pretty smoothly. We did our normal routine of introductions, pronunciations, drawing game, Simon says, break, homonyms, sentence contest, and the Hokey Pokey. The drawing game was a little confusing to explain this time, especially because even the teacher didn't understand. We later found out that the teacher didn't actually work there. Finally, LuRue got the point across by picking up someone's paper, doing an example, then walking around the room with it. We added more to the houses this time, because after the explanation process, people really seemed to get into it. We have already done a few changes to the drawing game and we'll see if it works better tomorrow. We asked people in both classes to perform something for us at the very end. In the second class, no one was brave enough to come up. However, in the first class one young man came up and performed a part of the American song "All of Me" by John Legend.
We were led to a classroom that was set up like our other welcoming - a circle of tables in the center for the important people like us and the teachers, then a half-circle in the back for the others- the students. It started with self introductions and a group photo, then LuRue went into talking about what it's like in Alaska, which led into Montana showing her Tanzania and India videos. Don got up and got everyone to sing, "I'm a Little Teapot". The rest of the class was spent by having people ask us questions, most of which Don answered, because there were questions Montana or LuRue didn't exactly know how to answer. One student even got up to sing "Hey Jude" by the Beatles.
The group was escorted back by a teacher who gave us each a bag of red tea, which neither Montana or LuRue had ever heard of. They had an hour to start blogs and prep for tomorrow before heading off to dinner. This time there were only two dishes, so most of the meals were finished. We did a review of our goals, then the group was dismissed.
Montana and LuRue went back to their room and while Montana was finishing up the blog and photo editing, LuRue created last minute costumes for our performance of "2 Tigers", the Chinese version of "Brother John", tomorrow.
Can’t wait to hopefully see “2 Tigers"???
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