Charity Fair

Well, it was about time I got some pictures of some of my students to show you. Thankfully, Shannon had her camera at the Charity fair this afternoon.

The Charity fair was an event for the primary school students. They all got to set up little booths in the cafeteria and sell stuff (home-made food, dvds, toys, "rubbish" as one of my students called it). 70 percent of the money they made went to charity, and they got to keep the other 30 percent.

It was totally crazy, but a lot of fun. I ate so much food there (someone brought in samosas, some other kids brought in korean food, some others made brownies and chocolate chip cookies and it was just like being at home), bought Kill Bill for 2 kuai (um...25 cents. i haven't checked to see if it works yet), and some jewelry and stickers from some of my students.

So...here are some pictures of my 4th grade ESL students. Looking at these pictures makes me so happy...I guess i didn't really realize how much i adore these kids. The first one here is Gota, who is so so small and so so cute and Japanese. He barely understands a word I say and likes to pant like a dog in class sometimes. Whenever I write stuff on the board and tell the class to copy it into their notebooks, he'll look at me, point at the board, and say "dees? copy?" as in...this? copy? I find myself responding to him or telling him straight up: "Gota. Copy. This. This, copy." I hate speaking in broken English but what can i do, he doesn't understand me otherwise. And here is a picture of me and Gota and Lina, this adorable, shy, Korean girl. God these kids are cute!
This picture is of Rebecca, me, and Daisy. These girls are so incredibly sweet. Rebecca is the one who told me I should get my boyfriend to buy me a car, and she is from Taiwan. Daisy is Japanese and yesterday brought Shannon and me presents (cause Shannon teaches the same ESL kids that I do). Our gifts included some "fashion jewelry" (a little 'silver' necklace with a turtle on it) and some Disney nail polish. My nail polish is gold...Shannon's is big glitter chunks. And she wrote on the packages "I love Miss Cummings" and "I love Miss Stephanie." These kids seriously melt your heart. I feel really bad that she's failing my class...

Anyway, things here are fine, except that now my 6th grade english students think it's ok to mention the whole 'miss stephanie is fat' thing...like at the charity fair one of my students was trying to sell me food and when i refused, he said 'oh come on...you're fat...you can eat a lot...' COME ON. I'm going to bring it up one final time in class tomorrow and tell them that the next student who makes any mention of his teacher's weight is getting a warning note. Seriously.