Adventures in Teaching

Last Saturday, I taught an extra class to some Chinese professors who were interested in English. They brought a camera and took snapshots during the lesson. I had no idea I looked so funny while I was up there teaching.

Look Dad! I showed them the coupons!

In other news, I got sick for a few days, but it's passed over now. I feel ready to take on the world again. I just gave my students midterm exams and now I have to sit down and grade them all. Ugh. At least I was smart enough to make them multiple choice.

Forest Park

This Saturday was a holiday for the Chinese. It's called "Tomb Sweeping Day," and its pretty much just what it sounds like. You go and clean your ancestor's graves. Anyone some students (not mine, but attendees of FJUT) invited me to go to Forest Park for the day. Thier ancestors were buried too far away to visit easily. So we just played around. Here is a picture of me standing next to a 1000 year old tree. ...Also some turtles.

We rented a boat and rowed out on the lake. We had a race and my boat won the first time, but the second time we came in last. I guess we used up all our energy.

I have to go write a mid-term for one of my classes now. Fun fun.

Odds and Ends

I have good news and bad news.

The bad news is that I got in a traffic accident while riding the city bus and broke my leg. The good news is that I'm writing this on April Fool's Day, so I was just joking.

My cat is so strange. He likes to sleep under the covers (never seen a cat do that before) and he always talks with his mouth full, That is, he meows for me to feed him, and when I do, he doesn't stop meowing while he eats. Only of course it comes out rather strange, a sort of - megreeeoow. I am trying to teach him to use the toliet instead of his litter box. Amazingly, it seems to be working. I might have success in a few weeks.

I made rice-crispie treats for my students at English corner last week. I found a box of rice crispies in the imported section of the grocery store. The marshmellows they have here are quite a bit harder and stickier than American marshmellows, but they worked alright. The students loved them.