Playground

The kindergarten has a playground for the kids to play on each day. After a couple months of living in China, I realized how much fun it is to play with the kids and tried to as much as I could. Sometimes the kids are very bad in class (and you want to hate them), but when you visit during playtime, suddenly these little devils turn into the cutest kids who absolutely love you. They’ll run up give you a hug, grab your hand, make you follow them everywhere, show you everything, play ninja and superpowers, and suddenly you just can’t help but fall in love with these kids. They also love to steal your camera and take pictures—so the majority of these pictures (especially the ones I’m in) were taken by the kids.

One day Cole gave me this pipe cleaner butterfly and it kind of melted my heart.

When you tickle Tim his vein sticks out—so adorable and funny.

I can’t tell you how much fun I have with these kids. Also, incase you can’t tell—I completely favor the boys. I don’t know why, but I just love these playful, little guys!

Lessons

My program, ILP, encourages all the schools to organize classes for us English teachers so we can learn more about their culture. We didn’t have very many lessons (part of this could’ve been our fault for not organizing them), but we were able to have many Chinese lessons, a cooking class, a pottery class, a couple Ku Fung lessons, and play badminton many times.

Chinese Lessons: These were taught by our native coordinator, Mary, and we had it almost every other week.

Cooking: Mary also taught us how to make dumplings! As shown in this post.

Pottery: The pottery teacher taught us how to make pots. Sadly, he didn’t let us keep anything, but it was still fun!

Kung Fu Lessons: We had the most legit Kung Fu teacher who gave us a few lessons. He taught us some defense moves and the basic Kung Fu sequence.

Badminton: We got really into playing badminton the last couple of weeks in China and we started getting pretty good at it! The school has a class of orphans that would come in and play with us all the time (these kids were GOOD) and we had so much fun!