Tuesday afternoon 1330 - 1600 StarSplendor New Year party - not unlike a party back home - party games and short plays and dances and charades - this mini-play is about the Emperor's eunuch selecting suitable concubines for his master
This one is a bit like a drinking game where the first one to slip up has to take a drink..........................
This next one was a bit excruciating and I am pleased that I could not understand one word of it..........
I think that the performers (teachers and managers) were told to dress in black. I was about the only person present that was not dressed in black
Tomorrow the class that has been doing an intensive Entertainment course with will review Movies and I will get them to make a documentary using the camera on my phone; they will rehearse a self-introduction in English and then I will film it - prize for the best film i.e. best spoken English. To model what they will need to do I interviewed myself this morning.....
Morning meeting with the owner of the school and all the staff involved in the Everybody Up! program to discuss new ways of working and protocols. In the afternoon I spent time preparing for classes and at 4pm went with Steve and Joel for a meal at a local Korean restaurant. Back home now and time for an early night with a couple of paracetomol.....
Tuesday woke up with a stinker of a cold. Lemsip capsule import came in handy! Baozi for breakfast after my Chinese lesson
Coffee and Chinese homework while the maid was cleaning the apartment and doing the washing - I like to get out of the apartment on Tuesday afternoon so I don;t get in her way
On Friday Steve had a graduation ceremony for his Everybody Up! class - I taught these children for a few weeks while he was off sick so I popped in for a slice of celebratory pizza
Bought some mitts and protective front weather gear to furnish the bike, now it looks real hardcore north china. Did some prep work first thing this Tuesday morning (on my day off) as there is no prep time during working hours this week. In the afternoon went to my fav cafe and did some Chinese grammar homework.........