While I was waiting for my class to start, a little girl came up to me and started saying 'Teacher, teacher, teacher'then she said 'Teacher, bag' and pointed at my bag 'Teacher, door' and touched the door 'Teacher, shoe' and showed me her shoe 'Teacher, eye' and pointed at my eye.I was really impressed as she would only have been about 4 years old and she was so confident.I was about to ask her some more objects but suddenly in the corner near to us another kid...

Hong Yan invited me over for lunch.Once again they made a vegetable and tofu hotpot and it was really good.I practiced some Chinese with them, saying the food was delicious and that I was full up.After lunch, Hong Yan asked me to go to town with her while Liu Le Xuan went to her dance class.We walked around town for nearly three hours.Hong Yan asked me when I want to get married.I told her I am too young.She told me she got married at my age and had Liu Le Xuan...

I had to teach for two hours at Wanhuatong instead of the usual one hour, to make up for the class I missed when I was sick.It was nice having a longer lesson; I was able to include more fun activities.The first lesson was Zoo animals, and I designed my own cards to use in a game of memory/pairs with the vocabulary.I cannot draw (my sister got that talent) so I drew over the lines in the text book with a pencil, then did the old scribble trick on the back of th...

I was in Miss Wang's class during my break as usual, and one of the kids kept saying something to me in Chinese over and over.I thought he was saying the word teacher but I couldn't understand anything else.I asked Miss Wang to translate; he was saying 'What is your name?Is it Teacher?' so we told him my name is Michelle.Another kid came up to me holding his hand out and I thought he was trying to show me something so I had a look.Kids are so gross; he was show...

It was so cold today that the canal near to Wanhuatong Kindergarten had actually frozen.Another Christmas present arrived in the post from England!I received more texts from Inner-Mongolia girl, including 'I kiss you on your face at afternoon.You tell me your tellphone Number.Did you still remember me?' followed by 'Did anyone ever tell you that you have beautiful eyes?'This was getting a bit creepy! When I arrived at the Flower Garden Kindergarten, one boy pu...