In order to improve tourism, foreigners living in the greater Ningbo area are being asked to submit their blogs to the Ningbo government for the ultimate blogging competition! Theory being ... if we're telling all our friends about it, they will want to come live in Ningbo too. They advertise many benefits for entering the competition: not only will I get a wider audience for my blog, but if my blog is interesting and popular, I could win a trip to Thailand or one of the other 26 grand prizes. Too bad I'm using an illegal website ... like many other foreigners. We're wondering if they're trying to catch those of us using VPNs and send us on a way trip out of China. The prizes kinda sound good ... but I am avoiding anything and everything to do with the Chinese government. Kyla's only request was don't cause an international incident, and I'm proud to say that today, I am honoring that promise :)
The Elves:
- The elves call me Ms. L since Ms. Lanham is hard for them to say. But this morning we read a book about owls. One elf told me I look like an owl. I said why is that? He said because Ms. L is like Ms. Owl. And the way they pronounce it, it's totally true! I am now Ms. Owl.
- Elf 1 offered Elf 2 some "cheese" that he made. Elf 2 wasn't interested. Then Elf 1 offered me some cheese. I said okay. But I had to follow him to the home center to eat it. That made sense, we have a kitchen and a table for a restaurant in our home center. But when I arrived he grabbed my hands and said, "Got you! I eat you now. Yummy. You dishous! (delicious). You taste like turkey!" So now I have cannibal children. Better yet, he started cooking mushrooms because he says they go good with turkey. Once he had me "tied up" and the mushrooms cooking, he went around to the other elves and TAs saying, "Cheese? Anyone, cheese?" I don't remember the full story of Hansel and Gretel, but it sounds VERY similar. Just minus the bread crumbs.
- We have a poster that shows the faces of many different emotions. As you know, "I'm angry" remains the most popular, though sometimes I question if they understand what they are saying. This morning when I pointed to the jealous face, one student asked what jealous means. The best I could come up with was, "If another student has a toy that you want, but you can't have it, then you are jealous of that student". Later that day we had to walk to the cafeteria with our umbrellas. We were short umbrellas today so several students had to walk with a TA and two students had to share one. One elf didn't get to hold an umbrella. He folded his arms up, gave the two students sharing an umbrella the evil eye and said, "I'm jealous!" He was so upset, but we were all so happy he was able to apply what jealous is!
- As we were walking back from the cafeteria, I felt the first raindrop. Within about 10 seconds, everyone had felt one raindrop. One elf pointed up at the clouds and said, "Oh no! It's broken!"
- When we laid down for nap time, I noticed the car horns from the highway were particularly noisy today. One of my students sat up, and said "Outside, too loud. That's not okay." Then he looked very sternly towards the noisy honking and said, "Calm down!"
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