Day 6: New friends:)

Teaching went a lot better today. 

I like teaching drama a lot more then kitchen. Which I have to do tomorrow...yay.  I just made 26 pudding cup things. It sucked especially since I am so so tired. So I think tonights post is mostly going to be just pictures. :P Sorry;P

our pudding cups:P

sneaky picture of Charleen

Downtown

Traditional chinese instrument that we watch our friend Charleen play. Its called a pipa.

My super cute school! :)

Me and Nikki

Zhongshan motto meaning "we are all human beings, we are all equal."

Terry, Charleen, Sherrie

Pretty park

Watch this (at least some) this is how Charleen sounded! :)

Day 5: Teaching and VIP Status

My first day teaching went okay...when we first went to the school my contact fell out (of course it would) and me being the dumb butt that I am didn't have any extra in my purse or my glasses. So I taught with only one eye being able to see..so that was a tad rough.

The kids are so so cute! I teach the juniors, which are about 3-4 years old. They are the most adorable little kids ever. And some of them even know quite a bit of english. We teach a lesson, then they have snack time, we teach another lesson, then outside game time (which is super fun), then one more lesson.

All in all teaching went better then expected, even with one eye. :P

After we got home from teaching, me and Nikki swept the apartment and our room, it was very dirty and gross, and sprayed raid under our beds...just in case of nasty critters. :P After that me and her went exploring downtown to look at all the cute shops that we have around our neighborhood, then walked to the one plus one to get stuff for our home ( :) ) and stuff to cook for dinner,  we ended up staying there for like two hours just going down every row to see what we could find. We each ended up getting several drinks to try:) the first one I tried was this pineapple milk type thing that was so so good! :) They have all different types of milk here, apple, pear, strawberry, anything you can think of they probably have it in milk, but its more like a soy milk type thing. I don't really know, but its very good, and I usually hate milk:P

Little baby husky that we saw on our walk:)

home sweet home

so close ;P

yummy!

After we got back to the apartment we all really wanted to go swimming so we changed and as soon as we were about to walk out the door kyle called and said that the wife of the founder and owner of bond schools wanted to eat dinner with us.. right then. so we had no time to change so we threw something over our swimsuits and walked with Brenin to the place we would be eating at, we were all hoping it would just be a street vendor place so we wouldn't feel bad that we weren't properly dress, but it ended up being in a fancy hotel in a VIP room we all felt super bad, but they didn't seem to mind, they were all super helpful and showed us how to eat everything.  I tried everything and it all tasted very good:) even the tea, which I normally don't like. also i'm getting better at chopsticks! Though they all laughed at us and showed us how:) tomorrow we are going to go over to Charlene house to watch her play a traditional chinese instrument, she was super fun and I think around our age. She acted as the translator for her mom (wife of the owner of bond)! we ended up having such a good time!

                                                                  our Chinese friends:)

Nikki, Kyle, me ;P

Creepy shrimp.  They showed us how to eat it and it ended up being very good:) me and kyle couldn't handle the little legs and eyes staring at us;P

fancy:)

 Today was such a good day in China, though so far, thats everyday! :)

Day 4: Downtown Adventures

Finally got a proxy server that actually works:P but while day four is fresh in my mind, i'm going to write about that and maybe come back to the first three!


I was feeling a little bit homesick this morning, especially since yesterday I was feeling nauseous. So I FaceTime'd my mom and talking to her cheered me up but also made me incredibly sad that I wasn't with her. So after I was done face-timing her, me and Nikki decided to go on a run/walk (ended up walking because it is so freakin' hot out even in the early morning)  and that cheered me right up. Nikki is so nice and really easy to talk to I'm very grateful that I will be able to get to know her better in our time in China. :)

                                                Me and Nikki last night when we went
                                            on a walk around the Apartment with Kyle.

When we got back from our walk, all of our group (Nikki, Kyle, Ash, Ali, Sarina, Courtney and me) went to downtown Zhongshan which was super fun! We ended up splitting up so me, ash, Nikki and sarina walked around and I got a super cute swimsuit that cost about 20 US dollars:) 

Everybody is super nice here they say hello when we walk by super excitedly because they know were American and their trying to make us feel welcome in their home. I love it, its a bit of a struggle with the language barriers but we get by with miming what we want. It gets pretty funny. For example we went to a clothing/shoe store and there were a ton of different kinds of shoes so I was going to by a pair but I needed a size bigger but they just didn't understand what I needed, and i was trying to sign . So we all decided to just come back once we looked up what size we are in chinese sizes. 


 Then we went to the one plus one market to get some supplies we needed for our apartment and for our lessons tomorrow.  This one was huge, it was 4 stories tall! way bigger then the one we have near our China home. We also ran into one of our coordinators (Brenni)  there and we talked to her for a bit, she promised us she would take us to "walking street" which is like a vender style street. So I am super excited about that! we then went to the fruit market so Nikki could get some vegetables to cook with her noodles for dinner. 

After the fruit market we headed back to our apartment so we could meet up with the other part of the group, we ended up just staying at the apartment and playing games, and talking. it was super fun! After dinner, me and Sarina had to make our ants on a log for our lesson tomorrow and Nikki helped us out with that! it was super fun and we were all just singing camp songs. 

             My cute little lesson: Ants on a log:)                                        Nikki and Sarina:)


Today was a really good day in China:) 


Things I like today:
1) Coconut milkshakes
2) cute swimsuits
3) fluffy bread from a bakery
4) making new friends 

Things I hate today:
1) Humidity
2) homesickness
3) Not having a dog to sleep with 


Well I have to go over my lesson plan for tomorrow! First day of teaching! :o Yikes! Wish me luck:)