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Published: October 29th 2009
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Pete's Class
This is one of Pete's classrooms. He couldn't even fit in all the students into the picture. LOT OF KIDS... Well we have been back teaching for 4 days now and it has been a good week!!!!!
On Tuesday, we were advised that our students have exams on Monday, Nov 9th- Wednesday, Nov 11th so we don't have to teach, that makes it a 5 day weekend!!! We quickly think in our head where do we want to go now, CAMBODIA!!! We have wanted to go to Angkor Wat since we left the USA(it was on Amazing Race last season) On Tuesday, later in the afternoon, Cherry, Pete's Class Coordinator, said that teacher's may want our classes before the exams to prepare the students more. Then on Wednesday Catherine, Head of our English Department, asked what days we wanted off in order for us to book our flights since we told her we wanted to go to Cambodia. Pete has been doing a language exchange with Catherine's daughter she is Junior at our school and wants to attend college in the USA. Thursday morning Catherine said book your flights and we will make the schedule around you, "It is our little secret" I was thinking in my head, AWESOME, hope we don't get caught but she approved it. So I
text Pete since he was at home the good news and to start looking for flights.
After my class ended at 9:45am I headed home and Pete had researched flights and we book a flight to Bangkok, Thailand then we take a bus or train to Siem Reap. GOSH I LOVE all this time off to travel. We leave on Tuesday, November 3rd and fly back on Wednesday, November 11th. We will teach Monday and Tuesday next week then Thursday and Friday the following week.
On Monday, November 2nd I only teach one class but I will be a Judge at the Immigration Police Speech Competition, so I don't have to teach on Monday. There is another judge from the USA and guess where he is from Elgin, IL and went to NIU(but didn't graduate) he, his wife and 2 little kids live here in Shenzhen. Small World.
After we booked our flights we ventured to the barber shop outside our complex back gate. I haven't had a hair cut since June when I was back in IL and Pete is on his 3rd haircut in China. I managed to speak enough Chinese to get my hair
Relief that I finally did it, got my hair cut
4 months is WAY TOO long to go without a cut, my ends were horrible. washed, upper back, arm and head massaged, then a trim. It looks pretty good even though I was NERVOUS as hell sitting in the chair. I then thought if it was that bad, I could just wear a ponytail as I have 98% of the time the last 3 months in China anyways due to the heat.
The highs are in the mid 80s and lows in the mid 70s currently in Shenzhen.
This weekend we are celebrating Halloween on a MUCH smaller scale than normal. I still need to find something to wear but saw a few masks at the supermarket that I will probably pick up and wear a black dress or something. We will be going to NYPD, a pizza joint in Futian(center of Shenzhen), for all you can eat pizza and drink beer from 8:30-10:30pm for 100 kuai/person=$14.64. There are 75 people from CTLC signed up to go so it should be fun to see everyone dressed up and feel "a little" like Halloween.
This week we taught a lesson on Halloween, as the kids didn't know much about it. We thought they would know more since they are Sophomores but we thought wrong. The schools do teach them about some festivals in the US but not Halloween, we found out after the fact. We have also saw a sign in a coffee shop that said "Happy Helloween" Ah we love seeing the mis-translated signs for it makes us laugh.
Please email us Halloween pictures next week so we can enjoy it from afar.
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Please try to remember all of this time off!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Another great trip planned!!!! My hair has been cut 4 times since that night at the beauty school!!!!!!!!! Enjoy Halloween in China on Saturday!!!!!