Second Week in Baoding!

Well I have made it through the second week of teaching almost. Pretty much more of the same this week. In fact too much of the same since that little girl who is becoming less and less cute to me told me I was fat once again! This time I told her it was rude in English next time I'll yell at her in Chinese!!! Other than that not much else is going on. I am hoping to start Chinese lessons next week...I'm trying to get people to speak Chinese to me specially since most of the time I do not understand their English anyways. I got paid on Wednesday!!!! The teacher handed me a huge wad of Chinese cash! I love this country...no taxes! So with some money in my pocket Lee and I are heading to Beijing for the weekend. I even went and bought the train tickets all by myself! I hope we have a chance to take pictures of some of the Olympic buildings.

This weekend is the mid autumn festival so we get Monday off which is awesome. The school also put together a talent show Thursday night. I accidentally talked myself into preparing a dance with ten first year students.
I made a really simple dance to "Rock around the Clock" and no one can laugh cause I'm not a professional choreographer like some people in the family! I'm posting the video to my flickr site (along with all my pictures) at http://www.flickr.com/photos/boogeysmistakes/sets/ I think the dance went really well the only thing I did not understand was that the teachers made the kids wear really big t shirts and insisted the kids take their bottoms off for the dance so that they were all just wearing t shirts....don't ask me...

Anyways, I'm getting a little more settled in. I finally hooked up with some other foreign teachers in the city so at least I'll have people to hang out with on the weekends. That's it for now I hope to have more stories after this weekend!