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Published: October 25th 2007
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10th anniversary show
view from the side of the stage So..everyone wants to know how the singing went on Sat, lol..it was ok. Not so much to tell about really though. We went over to the stage area outside around 9am and all of the kids in the whole school were carrying out chairs from their classroom to sit on. The primary classes each have a class set of plastics stools which are light..but the older kids carried out their metal chairs from all over the school campus, lol. We went over to the stage to find the music teacher who had given us the song to sing, but he was busy so a lady told us to just sit on some stools on the side of the stage area. Then of course, even though we weren't actually on the "stage", all of the kids in the audience we looking at us..and mine were screaming and chanting "hello lee! hello lee! hello lee!" lol. The show began with a group kids singing happy birthday to the school in English. The whole show was in English actually, except for our song, because the 10th anniversary of the school coincided with the 8th Annual English Festival week (which is why they had those
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kids in costumes getting reading to perform a skit! competitions last week). So one class performed a skit of cinderella, and a group of girls did a fan dancing routine..and then it was our turn to take the stage! lol. I studied the song the night before, but I was still basically just laughing the whole time. Then after we started singing, 3 girls from one of my 3rd or 4th grade classes came out onto the stage with us and danced around in matching flourescent green dresses, lol. No one had even mentioned that we'd have dancers! lol They wanted to dance with us, but we each had a microphone in one hand and the words to the song in the other so that didn't really work out...next time we'll know to ask, lol. After our performance, haha, I went up to our office to watch the show from the balcony. There were skits of The Sound of Music & Titanic, a boyband-ish dance routine, and a group of boys from one of my 5th grade classes sang "Sail Away" which was pretty hysterical, lol.
After the show, there was supposed to be some kind of English games going on but I didn't see anything like that
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girls fan dancing
i'm guessing they only had one size of the costume, cause it was too small on some and too big on others, lol going on so I'm not really sure..maybe it was in their classrooms. Usually, all of the kids go home on Friday night, but since they had the show on Saturday they stayed at school this week..and since the show wasn't until 9am..they had class from 7:30 until then! so crazy.. Then, after the show they all went back to their classrooms and then eventually went home Sat. evening. Some High School girls who we met in the Music room, had asked me and Candice to go shopping after the activites on Sat. but we called them a bunch of times and they didn't answer so we just went to the walking street without them and left them a msg to meet us there. They ended up texting us around 9 that they had just gotten out of class, and hoped we weren't mad at them! ..so maybe we'll go next weekend.
The past few days my kids have all been insane! Its getting a bit frustrating because they don't stop running around and talking and screaming..and its impossible to do anything with them when their like that. I found a game online that's like memory, but each kid had
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view from our office balcony after we sang a card. Then one kid chooses two kids, and asks them what they have..trying to find a match. I thought it sounded really good, and that I'd be able to use it for a bunch of different topics..but maybe not, haha. I tried it with my 6th, 3rd, and 5th grade classes on Monday..giving them each an emotion and then they had to ask 2 people "How are you?"..and it didn't work at all! First of all they all showed eachother their cards..when I'm sure they understood that they weren't supposed to, but then they all just start talking or reading..or playing hand games. So, Monday night I made a big die out of cardboard...and then tried to think of what to do with it. Online, I found one game where they roll the dice and then depending on the number they can draw an eye, ear, mouth, etc. on their team's face on the board, but even with that they have to be quiet for a sec. while I explain it..and body parts are to easy so I try to have them say something in English before they roll the die..but then everyone else in the room is screaming
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not sure what these banners say but they put them up on the library for the event and running around by that point! so..lol, if you have any ideas let me know 😊
Yesterday I tutored Jane and Alice which was fun. I brought my computer so I showed them both some pics of you guys and the Acme and Target..lol. Alice just read some books to me, and then she wrote a response to one of the books for hw. She also told me that she went on a school trip yesterday to a park to collect some insects and look at their habitat which is cool. At Jane's, I just spent the whole time talking to her..it was actually a little like therapy, lol. She told me that she's really worried that she won't get into a very good Korean university because her school is too easy and she has too much free time. She said that her mother also thinks that she has too much free time, because she's usually finished her hw by 9pm and in Korea students in 9th grade do work until at least 12:30. Also, her friends who go to International schools in Shanghai, go to Korean "training school" from 6-11pm everyday so that they will be able to
10th anniversary show
titanic skit! it's really hysterical how popular titanic still is here..like its often played in stores and restaurants..lol get in to good Korean Universities, but Zhanjiagang there aren't any Korean trainging schools so she's worried she won't be prepared. Since she's lived in China though she's always had a Korean tutor for math..because Koreans think that math in Chinese school's is too easy..pretty crazy. There's a new Korean training school in Suzhou (where her school is) so she's trying to start going there after school for extra math, English, and Korean classes. I tried to tell her she'd be fine but I really didn't know what to say. She told me that in Korea they think that you have to work very hard when you're in school so that you can get a job and then be free to relax. So, I asked her what hours her father works... 6:45am to midnight 7 days a week!! so insane, i really was shocked! I couldn't really say anything (like, i wouldn't really call that free, lol) but she did. She told me that they never really see her dad because he comes home exausted around 1am and has to leave again around 6:15am everyday. Then, she told me that last night he never came home..he had to stay at
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kids watching in their school track jackets the office all night! But because of that he came home at 9:30 while I was still there and then drove me back so I didn't have to take a taxi...
Anyway, I couldn't believe half of the things she was telling me. She's actually so worried about getting into a good University that she said she's asked her Mom a bunch of times if they can just move to Shanghai so that she can go to the good training schools there. I asked her, what she meant..like wouldn't her father have to ask his company to let him work in Shanghai, and she said that they would never let him...her mom, and brother and her would have to move there and leave her father here. She said there's one family that used to live in Zhangjiagang that did this, but its pretty awful and her mom said they won't do that. One good thing she said, about living in Zhangjiagang is that she is able to have a native English tutor. She said that in Korea, its really expensive to have a foreign tutor, and that you would never be able to have a one-on one class..so its
10th anniversary show
after the show some kids set up this area and were cooking meat on a stick...not sure exactly what was going on..lol very exciting to them that I'll tutor them. I hadn't realized that before so thats pretty cool... hopefully I'll be able boost her confidence in English a bit!
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