Chapter 36 - Children's Day

Hello Again Everybody,
Wow I cant believe its June already! Time is flying by! Before you
know it I will be blogging about Beijing and then headed home. That
is crazy to think that these past few months have flown by. To start
the June blog I have an excellent story to share with everyone that
follows my blog.
Well in China they have a Holiday called Children's Day!This day is one of the days that I teach out at the outside school.
There are only 4 classes in the whole school. Lee and I team teach all
four of them together. Well there was no teaching happening this day
because every class was preparing for Children's Day. Some rooms had
balloons strung across the whole class, (very cool how they did it),
Every class had huge Chinese writing on the chalk broads, and there
was food galore! It reminded me of the days that our classes in elementary
school would have parties. It was exactly like that! So each class
had their own little party going on. Since all of them were my
classes I would stay in one class for a few minutes than jump over to
the next.
The classroom with the balloons, I was really impressed with the
decoration. The balloons and the tassel were hung with creativity. If
you look closely the balloons are on this string. Well that string is
tape. They secured it on one side of the class room then took it to
the other side with the sticky part of the tape down. They had a cool
system down were 2 students were running the tape, like 7 or 8 kids
blowing up balloons, and than 3 students and me, (because I was tall)
were decorating the tape with balloons and tassel.
In that class it was pretty funny...I was standing there and enjoying the music with a juice cup in my hands and my pockets were packed with food enjoying the party.
Well this song came on and it had a very cool beat. I was dancing in
place and the Principal waved that I should go dance in the middle of
the class. So I did! I was dancing like a total goof ball but the
kids were all laughing! I grabbed a student and started dancing with
her sort of like a swing dance and then I start twirling her. I
twirled her back to her seat and grab my next contestant and did some
more twirling. Then the whole class was like "teacher, teacher." Sure
enough I grabbed the teacher and twirled her a few times! The class
and I were laughing so hard!
Now the other class, they did their parties a little different. The
kids came up with skits and dance performances to show their fellow
classmates. The skits were all in Chinese but they were still very
funny! I got most of them on video so you have to wait to see those.
Now alot of the girls did dance performances. Like 5 to 7
girls in a group and they worked all the prior week preparing this
dance. They all got dressed up, wore makeup, did their hair, the whole
deal! So in the second pic is one of those groups and you will see
what I mean "the whole deal". Also look at the shirt the girl is
wearing on the far left! hahaha misspelling send to china
This day was so much fun! I was sitting with the kids and seeing the day
through their eyes. Eating their food, sitting in their chairs and
acting like a goof ball to add to their holiday. Because they don't
get many and to get a day with no school, to them its time to party
and thats why they take this holiday so seriously.

Now I ate a pretty nasty item that day. Now I can truly say that I have eaten dog!!!! Its true! This girl had a bag of meat and it smelt really good! I
asked her what it was and she said it was dog. She offered me a piece and it was delicious! I even had a bigger second piece. So this is a pic of a bag full of dog meat!

For the part of acting silly, well the kids were playing with fake hair headband thing.
So its a headband the has fake bangs on it. I put it on along with a
students glasses and they took a pic of me! So if you ever wanted to
know what I would look like Chinese, well here ya go!!! (pic 4) Dont
make too much fun of me!
This day was a great day! I had so much and I know for a fact the
students did too! Because this was their day and they really did
enjoy themselves! Made me wonder how they will react when I leave?
Sad? Happy? Time to party? I dont know but I know that memories like
the ones today will always be with me. Thank you China!
Love
Jordan