A Saturday at school?

Because of Dragon Boat Festival, we have Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday all off next week from teaching so to make up for some of that time we loose we got to teach today! a Saturday which has yet to happen for us. We had opening with the kids and then we ended up rehearsing a lot for Spectacle rather than actually teaching a lesson. The performance is on the 17th. It'll be so great. The kids are awesome & they've been working so hard. We were at the school all day, from 8:00 am -9:00 pm. Where we were scheduled to teach but didn't end up doing so... I got to Skype Rebekah, Catie, Tarah & Mom, Dad, AND... Elisha & Nelly! SUCH a great day for Skype. And it was so wonderful, every minute of it. Then we had our dance lesson (a final run through before we performed later that evening :) Spectacle Rehearsal with the kids. We got to sit and watch the entire performance how it will go. The kids are so adorable. I'm going to miss coming to school and seeing their sweet smiley faces everyday. Oh boy. Then we helped set up for our Festival that night and at 6:30.... the Festival began!

Man! The Chinese sure know how to throw a party. Michael, Denial and Jenny made a number of dishes. French Fries, Cucumbers, Squid, Chicken, Corn, Soup, fruit, lots of random things and we ate dinner. Dinner was followed by a program (if you can call it that, it was a little more spontaneous and unorganized than something labeled a 'program' but... all the same) A group of Chinese teachers did a dance for everyone. Ha. It began as a Chinese Fan Dance and turned into a hip hop routine to the song, "Nobody nobody but you! da da da... Nobody nobody but you... da da da. Nobody nobody! Nobody nobody!"...:) They were hilarious. Then we all did our dance... the, aerobics/cheer dance. Surprisingly, as miserable as I am at dancing, I had sooo much fun doing it. Because we all knew how goofy we looked doing it and everyone else did too so we just rocked it! :) Mei wen ti. After that, Cherry and Icey sang a duet, Abby and Mikelle sang a song that Mikelle wrote the words and melody to but Abby wrote the music for it... and we played a series of games. They had the foreign teachers put headphones in and sing or hum a Chinese tune and the Chinese teachers had to guess the song. If they got it right they got a prize, if they got it wrong they had to eat some rolled mean doused in Wasabi. Eeeeeey. So Spicy! Another one, we played musical chairs... ha. and then we just sang Karaoke for the rest of the evening. We didn't leave the school until about 8:30 or 9.

By the time we got home we were all so tired, but... Saturday night, we couldn't go to bed. So Abs, Kelle and I walked down by the school to this shop that sells Bao zi and Manto, but they don't start selling it until 10:30 because they make it fresh for breakfast the next day, so we had to wait until late to go down. We did... and it was delicious. Mmmm, and the owners of the shop were so fun to talk to. When we got down there, the shop was empty and the manto wasn't ready yet so we just visited with them as best we could. Such sweet people. We got home around 11:30 and Jillie was watching the Nigeria vs. Argentina futbol match so we joined her for the rest of the game and then hit the hay by Midnight so we could wake up at 2:30 for the U.S vs. England match.

We missed the first half (when all the goals were scored) but we caught the second half. Didn't expect the outcome, especially after watching it. But it was better than expected, so... shoot! We'll take what we can get. :)