Saturday, August 16, 2008

We Eat Turkey. We Eat Turkey. Gobble Gobble Gobble.

Use of songs to teach content. Thanksgiving songs. Sing-off. We ETAs get pretty competitive.
We eat turkey.We eat turkey. Gobble gobble gobble. Gobble gobble gobble.
Always on Thanksgiving.
Thank you for the food.
Yum yum yum. Gobble gobble gobble.

Reward system.
Trip to Nan-An and Nan-Ao. Nan-An: beautiful building, beach, interesting oceanographic education center. If teach there, run own class 1/5).

Beautiful busride to Nan-Ao. Skirt had time to dry. A bit dizzying.
Nan-Ao. Beautiful school, landscaping, scenery. Atalya and English written on walls and stairs to help the kids learn. Saw them practice martial arts. English classroom has platform by blackboard. Ten Little Monkeys in classroom, we all began chanting. Saw teacher's dorm a bit. We to neighboring elementary school (co-school). Lovely. Had Leonardo the Terrible Monster in Chinese in the library. Most most kids like to borrow from a nicer town library. We got served nice food by the school. (water and V-8ish juice at Nan-Ao), and the AP surprised us with icecream. I opted for taro and brown sugar. Pretty good. Walked back to bus with Vicky. She said most Taiwanese students can go to college, that there are even too many colleges for the students, and that all you need is money, but that most colleges are bad.

Butterflies flitting up to bus windows.

Fo Guang fiasco, contract. Walk home: buy book on Winston Churchill, could not understand shop owner. Bought webcam, bumped into James in store and he helped me find it. Walk home: tried new path. Thought would die. Got wrong directions once. Offer from lady to take me on her scooter since she thought I didn't understand her directions. Also tried new route to school in morning. Scenic.

Got home, Adam called, got beef noodle. Guy asked me my salary. Affronted, told him I didn't know, then remembered that that's an ok ques here. Then realized actually didn't remember. the guy was incredulous. Adam threw my shoes down to me from his window.

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