Vicariously

Well apparently some people are living vicariously through me so I have to be slightly more descriptive with my days here. So I will start out with yesterday morning. Well wednesday morning actually. So I went for a one mile run and then I walked another mile after that and then I stretched. I know how long it was because I ran on a track! I did pao bu on a paodao. This is prounounced like pau for those hawaiian peoples reading this. "pow" for the americans. and bu is like boo. and all I can say of for the last part of paodao it rhymes with the first part. It means track. And then I went to my teaching meeting after which I spent the next 8 hours reading harry potter fanfiction and then I went to sleep. Yesterday morning I went to my first class and then the second class to teach them. I sweated through both of them scared pretty much shitless but I think I was only speechless for about half of the time. They were really surprised that I was the same age as them but my students are so respectful. They are so kind and interested in me and what I have to say. It isn't at all like I was scared of. They are not used to being the centers of attention in a classroom so when you make for class discussion, they really don't want to. When I went up to the front of the room to talk they are give you very rapt attention. This is what they are used to. My job is to get them to talk. In my last class today I did manage that and I actually kept everyones attention for the full time. We interviewed each other and then presented ourselves to the class. As well I played a game with them where we threw a ball of paper around the classroom and paid a compliment to the person who caught it and then we have to start the next compliment with the last letter of the previous compliment. For example if I told someone that they had a nice shirt then the next person would say something like you are very tall. Or something of that nature. They were creative too. I had one where someone said they were wise and then the next one was you are very energetic and then I had one where the compliment was something like you are lovely and then the next person said you are forever you. I completely cracked up. Everyone did. They are so smart and intelligent. I'm sure that lot of them are amazingly smarter than me. They are bilingual after all. Look at me I am having trouble with whether my niunai cha is binda or re. My life is going really well so far. According to my books I am just past the honeymoon phase and entering the "cultural fatigue". So well I have fixed on some lesson plans and hopefully they will fully enjoy perhaps watching a little bit of a movie next week. If I can find it over the weekend and find a cash machine that dispenses 50 yuan notes. Or I could tell people to put money in my bank account? Haha I really am just kidding. LOL I promise I am not starving really. I figured out what is in the baozhi dont eat them and my lesson is if something tastes good just eat it don't ask questions and don't pay too much attention to it. ie. don't look inside a dumpling or too close to your plate because I swear to god you will lose your appetite. Tomorrow is Saturday and I am off to maybe hike to the top of a hill and to find pride and prejudice if at all possible on DVD. Well I love everyone and I am excessively tired due to too much caffine too late in the day. I love you blake and co. (this means you strange hawaiian/portugee/irish whatever you are and you minnesooootan person... there was a really funny video on yahoo about the minnesoota state fair where everyone talks in really long ooooohhhh sounnds anyways night guys I hope you are settling in ok see you in december.)