Today was freezing! Paul took the Ebike to work so I had to try and get a taxi. It was the one day where the roads were jam packed and every taxi was occupied. I ended up walking all the way to Ganjiang Road and to the bus stop there. I still didn’t have a taxi so I goton the bus to work. It was OK time wise and someone even got up to let me sit, or maybe they were just getting of the bus, but I sat down the whole journey which was good because the driver had lead feet. The school was freezing cold today but I felt quie confident with the day as I had planned a really cool PowerPoint lesson. We did a bit of review then I got out my lap top and we ran through a presentation about zoo animals which showed a picture, read the name, displayed the name letter by letter and read out the letters. The kids loved it. It was good for me too and the half hour flew by! The little ones were doing parts of the face today and I had Alan again. He managed to say nose and touch his nose several times and even did it for the principal when she came it to say hello, it’s amazing because at his age he doesn’t know ‘nose’ in Chinese!
For lunch I wanted to sit quietly and play on my lap top but this wasn’t to be. Principal Yen has taken into her head that I need feeding and she says she feels bad because she feeds all her other staff but I can’t eat it because it’s meat. This means every lunch time she invites me to Cheery’s garden and every time I say I’m fine then she insists! As she is the boss I always end up going and the food is good, but I feel bad because I get a restaurant lunch each day and also I would rather relax at lunch time but she invites prospective parents to the restaurant to view the real English person so I have to not spill my food or drop my chopsticks! Not very relaxing.
Becky came in to see me at lunch time today and made her own sentence, “Jasper and Barry are baby toys!” No idea what she meant but I was very proud she made a sentence and didn’t just come up to me and talk in Chinese. The children find it hard to grasp that I don’t understand them in Chinese much more than they don’t understand me in English! Hopefully this means Becky is getting it and will now try and tell me things in English rather than whispering Chinese in my ear and refusing to let anyone else help translate.