My first teaching day and the olympic ceremony

EDIT 2: Filefront doesn't work very well for people in china, so I uploaded a youtube version of my fireworks video

EDIT: ERROR, its not TODAY as in TODAY, but like 2 weeks ago ^__^

Today I had my first teaching day.

People back home always told me to take those TESOL classes, and learn to teach, I said no, I'd rather keep my $5000, I called their bluff and it sort of paid of, I believe teaching comes natural, of course at first its frustrating, but you first have to create a bond with your students, know what they know, and know what you don't know.

I tried not to worry about it, I did create a bunch of stuff on colors, animals, parents and sports... but it wasn't so easy... for you see, you know how they say, Mao Tze Tongue, he did 70% good for china and 30% bad for china, well teaching toddlers English is 70% Babysitting and 30% teaching English.

They didn’t understand a word that I was saying, they didn’t know any English, they were bored, some students were bright other students were idiots, based on what people told me about teaching, its just supposed to be conversational English, you talk, they listen, then get them involved somehow.

Boy oh boy … was I in a surprise; I tried showing them the different sports, like basketball, Yao Min, a poster of Hockey, and how to play them, that didn’t work.

Difference between tall and short, tall and taller, eyes, nose, mama, papa, crap man, them kids are pretty stupidz.



So, apparently my first day didn’t go smoothly, by the end of the class I tried asking their names, but like half of the class didn’t have any....

Then the time was over; well at least I did something, time wasting is an art form, besides what would you do? At least I know how brain dead they are, so the next time I will dumb down my curriculum.

THE OLYMPICS!!!!!!!!!!!



The Olympic opening ceremony was on this day, started at about 8:00 and went on until forever, I didn’t finish watching it, since I found it really boring, nothing but Dances, Dances, Dances, and more dances, maybe it got better later, but I’m still adjusting to the time and fell asleep…

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That is I tried anyways, while the ceremonies were going on, my street decided to throw some fireworks, as is the norm… but that stuff was so loud, and looking from my window, I could only see bellowing flashes of light, no fireworks, just Booms and flashes, like a thunderstorm.

Here's a small video of what happened




Tianjin_Fireworks_Aug8.avi