Things to do.
The weather today, as I woke up, was very nice. It was kool and a nice breeze with overcast skies. It doesn't seem to pretty until it comes after hot humid daze. Morning classes. Nothing different. Went well.
Went to the gym. On the way was kinda intereseting because the breeze was much harder now and it was a cool day. But as the taxi dude drove down a road, it was lined with these big trees in which the green leaves had already started turning yellow and started falling. They were the only trees around, so it felt like I was directly in an autumn day. It confused me. They gym was good.
I had my second day of oral examining. It went pretty good. There were more kids today than yesterday, however, yesterday, the skill levels of English were better. All the kids yesterday that I asked, "Have you been to the zoo?" understood and were able to respond. But today, when I asked that, Only 2 kids got it right. And they said Yes only because they didnt know the answer. It turns out, that it was the right answer. I would follow it up with another zoo question and this got them understanding the first. The kids describing of the picture today was not as good as yesterday`s either. I got a bunch of basic sentences today where yesterday I got kids going on and on about the fotos.
I also had a girl try to bribe me with compliments. After her oral exam, and I think she knew she had trouble with it, she said, "I wanted to say, You look very handsome today." After she said that, I kinda chuckled to myself, not so much that I blushed at the speaking of the truth, but becuase she tried to get a better grade by appealing to my pride. I was just like....Awesome.
Afterwards, I chatted with a couple of travel agent contacts looking for good airfare prices to go to Zhengzhou in Henan for my Shaolin trip.
Then I headed to Yumi`s. We went out to dinner at the CRC where my cellfone was stolen back in september. Then we walked over to Antoine`s place where he was having a one year anniversary party for being in China. It was fun. NIce and relaxing.
Then after that party became a bust, all the french people and others went to a North WEstern Chinese resturant. However, Yumi and I went to celebrate with Will and other teachers for WIll`s bday. John and Peter decided to go to the North Western place.
It was a good nite.