Lady Gaga and Marcel

On Friday 5-28 we had the annual Children's Day performance at our school. Most of our students' parents came to watch, and many of our students were in three or four shows. It was kind of like a stake roadshow. A few groups sang songs or played traditional Chinese instruments. Katie and my kids sang "Bingo," and the other ILP teachers' kids sang "Lollipop." Later, the ILP teachers all sang the Hannah Montana song, "The Climb." Bruce played guitar and someone else played the piano. Then, to end the talent show, we were the second-to-last act. We got on-stage and performed a dance choreographed to Lady Gaga's "Bad Romance." Katie learned it and spent the past two weeks teaching it to us. It was so much fun! We dressed in all black with sequins, and painted our faces like halloween, and ratted up our hair. It kind of felt like "Thriller." We got a huge applause, and the next evening the school principals paid for us to go out to eat, because the parents liked it so much.

On Saturday, Katie and I went at 8am to teach at the kindergarten. One of the kids is named Marcel, after a monkey from the TV show "Friends." He is kinda quiet, but one day he saw one of us teachers getting a token to put in our apron. He decided he wanted the token, jumped out of his chair and started clawing the token out of the teacher's hands. The teacher screamed, but Marcel just kept climbing up on her and clawing at her hands. Once he got the token, he never gave it back. So on Saturday, Katie was teaching Marcel when he did the same thing to her. She was able to whip out the camera and snap a photo of him:

*our internet is not letting us upload right now so we will gets those pictures ASAP*