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18 Dec 2008
Woke up really early this morning excited about my last day as a teacher! Went in for my 11:15 lesson, and when I walked into Class 5's classroom, they were playing Jingle Bells on the PC and had decorated the board for me!! Then at the start of the lesson they all stood up and said 'Merry Christmas' to me and gave me a gift of a Chinese decoration made with Chinese knots. One of the boys also came up and gave me this 18 inch wooden knife which said 'Kill the dragon' in Chinese symbols on one side - I think it was a bit of a spear of the moment guesture but it was really sweet and he said it would keep me safe!! I felt really guilty making them work so we rushed through the text in an impresive 11 minutes and then played Christmas pictionary for the rest of the time. Lots of them wanted pictures with me at the end, and I took some of the class. In the afternoon class we had a lot of fun at the beginning when one of the students wanted to go and see a teacher because he had not done his homework and needed to have a beating! I said ok, but then he came back a couple of minutes later and told me one of the other students had to go as well. This all seemed a bit odd and I said no so he went away again and returned a couple of minutes later! This time he picked up his coat so I asked why he needed it as the staff room is in the same building and it is warm in the building. He said it was the PE teacher he needed to see!! I made a sarcastic remark about PE homework which went completely over his head, and told him to sit down! Then I asked him to read and he had no sooner finished when I turned around to see him disappearing out the door!! The rest of the class told me his name was terrible Peter, so I'm guessing this wasn't personal!! Was about to go to my last class when I get told it's been moved to 9th period tomorrow!! Guess it isn't my last day of teaching after all!! English Corner tonight where we sat and chatted about various English and Chinese customs, then we went home and made a CD of English songs to give to Miss Cao as part of her leaving present.
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