I get up in the morning bout 6 am......

Chinese weather is cruel lately, it'll be hot and beautiful on all the weekdays and then rain as soon as it's Saturday and straight on through to Monday.

I just watched Princess Mononoke in Chinese with Chinese subtitles last night and understood the entire thing. (This may also be because I have watched that movie over 50 times in three different languages.)

Facebook feed makes me want to punch infants. Yes, it's THAT annoying. I don't care that you ate a banana and went to bed early.

When the kids have to ride past me in the little walk way when they go home, instead of forcing them to get off their bikes and walk, I jump up on the fence so they can ride past. I always get big smiles cuz of this. I think they like that I'm not a teacher all the time.

My bed has become so uncomfortable that I now sleep on the floor on a blow up mattress that I borrowed from Brendon.

I have watched so many fantastic Chinese comedies on tv but I will never know what they were because the titles are in Chinese or I forgot.

Finished Eragon. I'm angry. The concept of the book was great, Dragons, okay I dig it. But sadly the kid basically ripped a bunch of stuff off of Lord of the Rings (of which I am a huge fan) and also threw some Star Wars nonsense in there. The main character lacked common sense, which yeah you could chalk it up to the fact that he was 16 but no that's just my opinion. I like my main characters to at least be smart enough not to get themselves trapped or ambushed every 15 pages. I guess I just have to face the facts that the author was what, 12 when he wrote the thing? Thank you Aunt Shelly for thinking of me, but the only good thing about the book is that it's given me a huge push into wanting to write so that I can make something better than that.

I buy too much candy for my kids. I've completely spoiled them for next year's foreign teacher. Good luck!

We're supposed to evaluate our coordinators this and the past week. This is something that I desperately want to do and don't want to do at the same time.

I don't know why but every time I go into class seven there seems to be more and more plants. I think they reproduce in the night.

I realize I'm starting to be able to recognize most of my kids faces and put them in distinctive classes. I like this fact. I think I've connected with the most kids in the group of teachers.

I am starting to think in Chinese. Even when no chinese people are around. This is so wrong. Haha.

Went to get massages with Brendon and Li the other day. We went up the stairs and there was a room with two beds (literal beds) and a room with one. And the man was like "okay, the lady can go in this room and the two men can go in this room. And I was like, no fuck you, I am not letting a scantily clad basic hooker look-a-like feel up my boyfriend's bicep and more while I sit in another room. They looked perplexed but after telling Li "either it's me and you or I go home" they put us in the same room and Brendon in the single. Everything was fine after that although I think that the girls they sent in were a little confused. (They literally walked in, looked at us and walked out) and Brendon's girl apparently was waiting to have sex with him after the massage but he was like "k, thanks, bye, see ya." Some massage parlors double as brothels. So you just have to be careful, I guess. Let's just say we won't be going back there.

Lately I'm addicted to orange juice and potato chips. Couldn't tell you why. Li is addicted to toast.

-peace!

I has been lazy

I guess I'm not used to writing in a blog that people actually read so I tend to neglect them a bit. Sorries.

I am hungry. I am going to eat KFC again today once Brendon's awful driver gets us to Luohu. And I don't care!

For those who are interested (family) I have not been placed on the list for returning teachers next year. Do not fear, this does not mean I am a bad teacher for I have seen the returning list and well.....really? That's all I can say about that.

Of course today I don't feel like much of a teach because I let my only class of the day watch a movie all day. I had too. Last week I only taught two days a week due to Qing Ming festival and exams so three of my classes were ahead of everybody else. I needed a way to get them all even again. Movie worked. They didn't seem to complain.

Exactly TWO months til I return to America. Restaurants.....get ready.

One of my students saved my life today. The movie I wanted to play refused to comply with chinese outdated movie software so I ran up to the fourth floor to class eight and asked the kid in the class who had purposefully downloaded the movie if he could lend it to me. He did. He's fantastic. He gets candy later.

I always want to write more exciting things but I find that I can't think. Maybe more later. Oh and do not fret, just because I won't be coming back with this company doesn't mean that I won't be coming back at all. My plan is definately to return in the future but maybe with a different company.....