Today was my first official lessons with the class. After something came up yesterday, I was asked to fill in second grade while Frances taught first grade. We did a Brown Bear, Brown Bear lesson with colors and animals. My first class went well (and thank goodness because I was being observed by the English teacher), but after that the classes got a little out of hand. In all my teaching experience, a few redirection and students would be back not track. This is not the case, however, when the students have no idea what I am saying!!! I tried the counting down trick from 5, but when I reached 1 a little boy shouted out "BLASTOFF!!" This was extremely clever but by the end of my four classes I was a little exhausted.
After a short nap Frances and I ventured out for the afternoon. I was in need of a curling iron as mine stopped working the moment I got here, so we headed to a "girl's store" which was actually a whole market of make-up, nail polish, hair accessories, and clothes. I was so tempted to get some "chanel" earrings but maybe another day.
We heard of a Hong Kong Cuisine restaurant a few blocks away that we wanted to try. We looked and looked but could not find it. In dismay, I looked up to the sky to search for guidance and there it was… on the fourth floor of the building! It was a happening place and the wait was a little long but we happily endured. Once again we had no idea how to order but our waitress was very helpful and we ended up getting steamed mussels and clams, leek dumplings, fish balls in curry, and some noodles. All the food was delicious (aside from the fish balls) and we wanted dessert. Ordering dessert is evidently done at the beginning of meals in China so it was a big event trying to tell our waitress what we wanted. Finally, we got our amazing bread topped with mango and ice-cream. It was so good and filled us up for the walk home.
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