Well first off can I say that I am still in shock that it’s already December?! On Wednesday we were all kind of in shock that the year is almost over. The time has gone so fast. We keep busy and I think that’s why the time goes by so fast. This last week as school was really good. We’ve cut down on the marking which has made everyone in the English office slightly more sane. There was a while there where we were all staying at the school really late just to get some of our marking done. It was getting a little ridiculous.
This week in Mandarin class we learned a lot. We’re learning a lot in a short amount of time so we’re doing our best to keep up with what we are learning. It was pretty neat on Tuesday though as we were able to write a paragraph about ourselves and read it to the class. I was pretty proud of it J I even read it to my classes. They were pretty impressed. My drama students were the most impressed though, as I’m still getting to know them more than my other students. Speaking of my drama class. This week we’ve been continuing our unit on Emotions, so their project at the end is to create a commercial on their own. So on Thursday I did a lesson on commercials and showed them all of the different types of commercials. I started off with infomercials and showed them ‘Oxyclean.’ Well, they were absolutely amazed by it. They also loved how the price kept slashing at the end of the commercial. Next, I showed them the ‘Slap Chop’….and they were even more amazed, lol. It was too funny to watch their faces while they watched these things. It was really the highlight of my week at school. It’s fun to see someone so amazed by something you saw all the time at home. And Mom, I showed hem the Excel gum commercial with the little doughnut and they thought it was so cute! I showed them the Knorr salt one, and they thought the same thing. Haha.
This weekend was pretty jam packed. Friday the principal and his wife had a little Christmas party at their house for all the staff. We all brought an appy and I was able to make a semi-7 layer dip. I was pretty impressed. It was also Darrell’s birthday the day before so we bought a cake for him as well and had a little celebration for him. It had been awhile since we were all together as a staff, so it was a fun night. Of course our night ended up as Vox as it always does, but most of us were there so we got some pretty good dancing in.
The next day Robyn and I were pretty lazy. Spend they day Skypin’ and lounging. In the evening we headed to Lu Xiang to grab some dinner and a Movie! Yes, English movie J we went to go see the new Harry Potter movie! I was so excited. It was really neat. When you buy your ticked you actually pick your seat as well. So instead of people coming to the theatre early to save seats, you come to the theatre earlier to buy tickets and reserve your seat, which was nice, because we bought out ticket before dinner and didn’t have to really worry about getting to the theatre early to get good seats. It was pretty exciting for us to do something that we would do on a regular basis at home. So from now on I think we’re just going to go to the English movies that are out. It was way cheaper than back home too. For the two of us it was 70 kwai, which is about $5 each. And the seats were way nicer. All and all, good experience.
The next few weekends are booked up. Which will make December fly by, and soon enough we’ll be on our long vacation! Robyn and I bought some Christmas decorations and a little tree, so we’re going to decorate today J I’ll post some pictures of it when we’re all done. We told the boys that we would have Christmas morning at our place so we’re all going to buy gifts for each other, so it should be a fun little morning. That is all for now! I’ll try and write mid-week. I’ve been really bad for that the past couple week :S
Miss everyone,
-Taryn
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