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Hong Kong baby!

TGIF! Wow, this week has flown by! Only one more lesson after lunch and then we're off to Hong Kong for tonight and most of tomorrow. It's been an okay week, still finding my feet and learning the children's names...which is hard because I have 12 classes of 35-40 children! I have...

permalink written by  KatrinaB on September 15, 2006 from Dongguan, China
from the travel blog: China Dreaming

The strangest experience of my life

Saturday was Teacher's Day in China which was the strangest, most surreal, parallel universe, craziest experience of my life. It started when we had to get to the Winnerway Hotel (where it was being held) 1 1/2 hours early for no apparent reason. Our table was great, 3 from the front of the...

permalink written by  KatrinaB on September 11, 2006 from Dongguan, China
from the travel blog: China Dreaming

Happy Teacher's Day

It's Happy Teacher's Day in China and all the foreign and Chinese teachers are going to a 'do' this afternoon put on by the Winnerway group (which is a very big corp in Dongguan). The foreign teachers have to get up on stage (in front of hundreds of teachers) and say 'Happy Teacher's day,...

permalink written by  KatrinaB on September 9, 2006 from Dongguan, China
from the travel blog: China Dreaming

End of the first week...sigh...thank god...sigh

Well, the first week is over and they didn't make me cry! Yay for me. Most of the teachers are going out for dinner and drinks to celebrate and then tomorrow is Teacher's Day, which is HUGE in China. We had to go to the Winnerway Hotel this morning to practice speaking and walking onto the...

permalink written by  KatrinaB on September 8, 2006 from Dongguan, China
from the travel blog: China Dreaming

I ROCK!!!!!!!

What a high! The afternoon sessions today were my Class Rules! lesson plan and it worked by george! The first lesson was quite funny because I didn't even get to the 'consequences' part of the lesson because they kept breaking the rules I'd written on the board! The other two classes...

permalink written by  KatrinaB on September 6, 2006 from Dongguan, China
from the travel blog: China Dreaming

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

Day 2 is over and I've lost feeling in my feet. I didn't get to sit down for any of my classes and I had three in a row this afternoon! I'm definitely going to have to plan lessons where I can sit down :) They tell me the 1st week is the hardest and they'd better be right. It can be...

permalink written by  KatrinaB on September 5, 2006 from Dongguan, China
from the travel blog: China Dreaming

First day is over, Hallelujah

I am knackered, my feet are killing me and my head hurts. I taught 3 classes of Grade 6 with varying results. I'm going to have to come up with discipline methods for one of them, man, they were hard work. Tomorrow I'm teaching 4 classes of Grade 5 and have yet to write the lesson...

permalink written by  KatrinaB on September 4, 2006 from Dongguan, China
from the travel blog: China Dreaming

Ouch, my brain

My first full day of 'working' for over a month and I'm knackered even if I didn't teach. We spent the morning going over lesson plans, games, activities and discipline (anxious nibble of finger nails!). In the morning the children do their exercise out in front of the school. Photo left...

permalink written by  KatrinaB on September 2, 2006 from Dongguan, China
from the travel blog: China Dreaming

A goodbye poem

This is a poem that Mum wrote for me while in the back seat on the way to the airport! *********************************************** Update: I have removed this poem because Mum thinks I'll get deported! If anyone's interested, please email me or leave a comment and I'll forward it...

permalink written by  KatrinaB on September 1, 2006 from Dongguan, China
from the travel blog: China Dreaming

Walmart

Well, it's another hot night at Dongguan. Outside feels like a sauna and only air conditioned cabs, shopping centres and home make it bearable. Most of us went to dinner and Walmart tonight for a little retail therapy. I need to buy a Mobile phone and there are so many choices in China! ...

permalink written by  KatrinaB on August 31, 2006 from Dongguan, China
from the travel blog: China Dreaming

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