The odd people in my life.

I was so excited about my brother and sister coming to Taiwan that I couldn't help telling my students about them and when I told them my brother's nose was even taller than mine, the little nasties gasped. They gasped.

Also I got an e-mail from my mom. They are driving all the way down to LA to get passports done so Sarah and Johnny can come to Taiwan. They're supposed to fly out January 23rd. Good luck, my crazy family. =)

and today my classes were insane. It seems that the more tired I am the more determined they are to harrass me. At one point after class I had three kids sticking stickers on my face, one kid wearing my hat, two kids stealing my puzzle, the other had my book bag and they were all yelling "Teacher, give me." So I told them if they wouldn't give my stuff back I'd kiss them. one of my good kids translated for me and instead of dispursing and running in fear one of my boys turned it on me and said "Okay, kiss me." ....I ran

Finally, some Chinese I can use

I've told you about one of my Chinese teachers, the one who mostly teaches me how to talk to animals. But I have another teacher two. She is 25 and is so fun. In my last lesson with her she taught me what to say to guys who ask me "Where are you going?" or "Where do you want to go?"If you like the guy you say "I want to go in your heart." This seems like a very useful phrase, no? My only problem is that the words "go to" and "eat" in Chinese sound very similar to me and I usually end up saying "I want to eat your heart."
But I've been practicing the phrase and hoping for an opportunity to say it. It would totally shock someone because it's something usually only Taiwanese people know about. So I was riding my bike to meet Naomi at a beauty salon and this guy in a car yelled across to me "Where are you going?" I smiled and then said...




absolutely nothing (What can I say? I'm a chicken ;) )

Was it wise of me to toast to "adventures in 2010"???

This is what happened...
Since the new year I have...
helped at an orphanage
worn ooberly long, bright blue pants under my skirts
tripped down the stairs at school, because of my oober long blue pants
found ten grey hairs on my head
chased a bag of cotton candy down the street in front of witnesses
won 13 out of 15 games of connect four
gotten incredibly angry at someone for their emoticons on Skype
ruined a bowl of ice cream by adding nutella to it
and
stayed in bed all morning pretending my floor was made of lava and my bed was lava proof

Dancing at school

Sometimes in the morning the students will dance to this song for exercise. I can't seem to get the hang of it, that's why I'm the one filming. :)

Christmas in class

1st grade class singing to Jingle Bells

Kids say and do the darndest things

so, today in class I was teaching Christmas vocabulary, when one of my fifth grade boys, in perfect English, yelled out " Teacher are you going to have a baby?" It flustered me a lot, but I know that to him it was just a casual conversation topic...so I said... "Maybe one day...Christmas Tree....Santa Claus....Presents" and continued teaching Christmas vocab...Then about three minutes later he blasted me with "teacher are you getting married?" I should have told him the truth, that I am married, but my husband is in a prison in Mexico. but I couldn't. So I told him that maybe one day I'd get married..."Stockings, Sleigh, bells, Christmas Carols..."
All in all it was a very interesting class.
Then just a little bit ago, I was wearing my jacket and a little 2nd grader started pointing and laughing at me...I guess I had buttoned it wrong. I must say it was very demoralizing to be laughed at by a 2nd grader for not knowing how to wear my jacket.

I guess kids just aren't sweet all the time. =(

A Morning at School

I didn't even mean to take this video. I was trying to take a picture of Nomes' clumsey attempts to get out of the car overloaded with stuffs, but instead I hit the filming mode of my camera. So, I filmed our typical morning at school =)