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Yesterday was the school’s first annual English Cultural festival! The head English teacher told me that I was a main reason why they decided to do the festival. Students competed on stage to show off their English skills. For one of their tasks I had to stand on stage and while and English word was on the screen behind me the student had to try and explain the word to me and I had to guess! Luckily all of those family games of password really paid off and I was able to guess most of the words! All of the students did great but I was especially proud of my students that made it far in the competition!
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My English teacher friend, whose English name is Supergirl, invited Jon to an adventure on Sunday. She said we would get leave at 5:45am to go to “a hill with flowers”. Now for those of you that don’t know me very well, it takes a lot or something imprint to get me out of bed before 9:00am. So, I was hesitant about “a hill with flowers”. But, like I have said before, you can never say no to a possible adventure when you are in a foreign country.
So we pack in this bus of tourists with some off teacher friends and their kids. After the group leader announces to the bus that we have Americans on the bus and everyone looks at us and waves… I passed out. Jon told me that the whole ride, my teacher friends were handing him all kinds of food to eat… Including potato chips, fried fish, and beer… All before 9 in the morning. ( he ate it all but the beer, he said luckily a teacher told him he didn’t have to drink it then).
When we arrived to the tourist destination…. It was literally a hill with flowers…. But what is more exciting than a hill with flowers?? A tall white girl and a tall black man! We were famous. We had people literally dragging us different ways to take pictures with us. Our hike up the hill took probably about 5x as long because we had so many people ask to take our pictures with us. Mostly women asked for pictures with me, I think it’s because I am what these women are told what what is beautiful.. White, tall and big eyes. And mostly men asked for their picture with Jon, I think if was because he is so tall and has some muscle in him and also because we heard the word “strong” multiple times when they wanted pictures with him.
When we finally got to the top of the hill. It was lunch time. Jon finished off the fried fish, we ate some sausage and had some beef jerky that looked like candy in a candy rapper. After lunch it was lots of running around with the kids and I taught everyone red light- green light and Simon says, they were a hit.
Over all it was a great day. Jon and I learned; more about China’s culture, how to appreciate a hill with flowers, a taste of what it must be like to be a celebrity, and I was shown again that I should never turn down an opportunity to have an adventure.
