Valentine’s Day is pretty big here, one of the girls in the office got a big bunch of red roses, which caused all of them to giggle all day. Another exhausting morning being manhandled by miniature people, and being thrown up in front of two classes, completely unprepared. We sang “head, shoulders, knees and toes”, and “B-I-N-G-O”, and asked the colours of every single item of clothing in the classroom - I just couldn’t think of anything else, and the two classes were basic English, not the Immersion classes. On the way back to the apartment, Jun - the teacher who drives me to scholl - passed me a piece of paper on which was written the Chinese and English for Valentine’s Day. I nodded enthusiastically, as I am wont to do when Jun tries to
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