They're warming up!

Today has been quite warm and humid, but not as bad as yesterday. I guess there's another typhoon headed Taiwan's way... it might be here on Sunday.

The kids are feeling much more confident in class I've noticed, which is great. I try to do activities where they have to speak themselves, and speak loudly. Like they'll do a conversation in pairs, and then I'll randomly select someone else and ask them what they just said. So the original speaker has to speak loud enough for the classmates to hear him or her. They get really competitive about this! Good times.

My Chinese basketball vocabulary is also expanding as I still play with the kids every day. They think it's great fun and try to teach them some English at the same time. They're favorite phrase is "Shoot it!" but when they say it is sounds like "Shooey!" Very cute.

Today is Teachers Day (Confucius's birthday) and every class gave me a card, and some students made their individual cards to give me as well. One class had each student make a little card then put it in an envelope, and they all wrote in Chinese because they know I understand. The principal also came into my class and gave me a rose and thanked me! Then, all the students gave a very vigorous round of applause. Too bad the U.S. doesn't have something like this! I don't know, maybe they do but I don't remember anything about it when I was in school...

Much love and peace to everyone.