It feels like it's been 2 weeks since we got back from vacation (even though it's really only been 4 days). First, Wednesday was Michaela's 19th birthday (an ILP teacher). We celebrated by eating at a "hot pot" restaurant and having cake. As she was blowing out the candle I leaned over to Whitney and suggested she rub some frosting on Michaela. Whitney said the staff probably wouldn't like it. The next thing I knew, Kelly, our Chinese foreign teacher, had a chunk of cake and was smashing it all over Michaela. The cake fight was on! I hid in the corner after 3 other teachers were attacked by Kelly. It didn't work . . . Kelly got me with a glob of frosting. After the cake was demolished and frosting was everywhere we made our way through the crowd of employees who had stopped to watch us and we washed up. It was fun to see how Chinese people react to food fights.
Later in the week, Tim (a Chinese vice principal) gave Whitney (our head teacher) 2 bags of freshly cooked crabs. It turns out that most people in our group don't like seafood, so Chris, Sam, Whitney and I ate most of the crabs. They were soooo good. Not at all like Red Lobster. We had a whole crab, eyes and all. We cracked them open with our brute force, and ate their insides. Our common room still smells like fish.
Those were the high points of our week. Other than that we found out we are adding an extra teaching day at the kindergarten class. Of the 3 schools we teach at, the kindergarten is my favorite. But we will have to wake up at 7 am every other Saturday morning. I guess we have to take the good with the bad. =)
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