So adventures today weren’t quite as high on the epicness level that yesterday’s was, but still pretty cool to me.
On Thursdays I have one class in the evening and one in the afternoon. My first class today was really good and I was super pumped for my last class. As such I took both my camera AND camcorder to relive the excitement that I knew I was surely going to experience. So I stuffed those in my back back and headed off to the class.
As I approached the last building I noticed that it was unusually quiet. As I rounded the next corner, I was taken aback by two perfectly straight rows of desks in front of the classrooms. I then talked to a teacher that was walking by those desks and was told that I was not going to be teaching because they were testing. While a part of me was disappointed that I wasn’t going to be teaching, the other part of me was amazed at the discipline that was being displayed.
While our classes seem to be so hectic and fun, when the Chinese teachers come around the kids are as straight as a fiddle (as my mom would say). While I was standing there looking at the students that were testing, you could not hear a sound. Also, not one kid turned around to look at me. It was amazing.
In other news, this week Jordan and I have been teaching about careers. At the end of class we would have kids write on a piece of paper (in proper sentences) what their English name was. As I was going around helping students in my class today, one kid quickly hid his notebook away. I managed to get it from him and this is what it said: “My name is Martin Luther King and I want to be a terrorist.”
What the heck are you supposed to do about that?! Haha, I was left totally perplexed because you don’t want to take it lightly because it is a serious thing. You also don’t want to be too serious because then the class won’t like you. Overall though, it was worth a good chuckle. We have had some kids say that they want to be a DJ, a thief and, my favorite, a superstar. It is a lot of fun teaching these classes. It makes me smile. 🙂