Dragon Boat Festival

Okay, so I am a little behind in blogging. The last two months have been incredibly busy. I’ll start where I left off with the most interesting things.

Two months ago, I started teaching in another program at my school. It is a program to prepare students to study abroad. As luck would have it, I was scheduled to teach the first two morning classes each day. So, in China, that means getting up really early. It did, however, have its benefits. It allowed me to get to know some students very well. This class ended a week ago. I will also be teaching the same students after I return from summer vacation.

Teaching ten extra classes each week was quite difficult. If you consider the prep time and the getting up early thing, it really takes its toll after a while. At the end of May there was a holiday – The Chinese Dragon Boat Festival. This gave me and all of the other students three days off. I decided to take advantage of it. I went to Shanghai with some friends and hung out for three days. It was great! We went down to the river and saw the Dragon Boat races. It was quite interesting.


We were also able to see a Chinese Acrobat show. That was really impressive. I was also able to do some of the things that we take for granted in the States. I saw two movies in English (there are no theaters in my city that have English movies). The movies were Star Trek (not bad) and Night at the Museum 2: The Smithsonian (really funny). I also ate Mexican food – again something that my town does not have. It was a truly refreshing time. I have some great friends. Lily, Ted, and Katie really are some great people. They really helped me have a good time and got my mind off of work. I really needed it!

This is really bad! I am looking at my planner to see what things I should have blogged about on here. Please, be patient with me. I’ll be trying to catch up in the next few weeks. Talk to you soon.

"Never put off until tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow."
-Mark Twain

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