Friday ended with our usual street hockey game, where I managed to score a goal, which is always satisfying. It was a little drizzly, but it was alright. The humidity at the moment is just gross. I woke up the other morning to go on my run and it said current temp 28, feels like 39. It’s just aweful. You don’t know if you’re sweaty or just wet…or both!
The next morning Ewan had us over to watch Game 5. It was nice to get together with a bunch of Canadians and watch a hockey game, kind of felt like you were at home and not in China. The only issues was sometimes the streaming was a little slow. It was a good game, a little stressful though. The only problem now is that games play in the morning here and during the week the whole teaching thing gets in the way of hockey watching! Hehe, I think for PE we’re going to set it up on a projector…it’s sports…it’s Canadian…we’re justified to show it!
One of the guys here found a puppy on Minzu (the road the school is on) this week so he’s been bringing it to school and to some social events. It is too cute! It was nice to play with an animal for a bit.
I’ve been working on my paper for what seems like forever now. I forgot how fun it was to write papers. I actually did kind of forget though. I tried to just start writing it….big mistake. I was able to put myself back into the student mindset, find all my sources, pick the quotes and support that I needed, then go from there.
A couple days later…..
My paper is now done, I just have to do a bunch of formatting stuff and include a bunch of pictures. My goal is to email it off tonight. I’m halfway through this course now, which is nice. I’m going to try and do my best to do the most I can before I get back home, as school is going to be the last thing that I want to do. If I can get all the readings done before I leave, and just have the final paper left that would be the most ideal situation.
School is starting to get a little crazy. All the students that have failed are wondering what they can do in the next week to improve their grade?! It’s pretty funny. I tell them that they need to make a time machine, go back in time and try harder. All the students that are failing in my class should not be failing, they simply don’t put the effort into class that they should be doing.
I’m starting to slowly pack up my stuff which is surreal to me. It seems as though I was just at home stressing how I was going to pack for a year. This is easy now. My parents took home all my big stuff, so it’s just pack up what I have, and then I’m good to go. My Christmas legs are starting to get really bad now though. I’ve been keeping busy though, and that’s that I need to do. I have my marathon that I’ve started training for and my class. I can’t wait to do runs at home though. This morning in order to get 10km in I had to run around the outside of the track 22 times :S Not really the most exciting thing. I’m dreaming of Rocky Point, Mundy Park and even Como Lake, which used to seem boring to me.
This weekend we are headed on our last weekend trip. There are 18 of us girls headed to Shanghai for a bachelorette party. I’ll get my last China shopping fix in which I’m pretty excited about. After that my next plane ride will be my flights back to Canada J It’s nice that we don’t have a long layover. I believe that my flight out of Wuhan is at 8:50 in the morning and I get back to Canada at 9:30am the same time I left, so in total just over 15hrs to get home.
Anyways, that is all for now, I will give an update after Shanghai…and probably one more while I’m bored during exams period since I won’t have anything to do besides pack up my desk.
Can’t wait to see everyone!
-Taryn
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