Cows and Lugang

I know... I know I said every Sunday I would post and obviously I have already failed. But here we go for the last week. Once again school is no different, I think my kids are doing well and I am finally finding interesting ways to teach grammar. Have I mentioned I hate English. Chinese class is still going okay, my goal is to be able to have a simple conversation by the time I go home.
This weekend Hanna and I had more home visits. They were a good time. On Saturday we wnet with Ivy and her family, she is one of my 2B-1's. She is adorable. They took us to a farm where we checked out cows and fed them bottles and grass. Then the main event... I milked a cow!!! Then drank the milk!!!1 It was actually pretty good, just a little warm. Ivy did not want to do it because as she told Hanna and I the utters looked like a boy (with a gesture to the crotch area). Hanna thinks that her and Ivy can be friends outside of school, after that comment. Then we ate ice cream made from the cows at the farm. Then we went to lunch by our scool. It wasa ton of food. After that we went to Ivy's to play Wii, which lasted forever. But it was fun, Hanna and I were both getting tired when they asked if we wanted to stay for dinner. We said sure and ate pizza with them. It was way good. After which I had a coughing attack, since I have been sick. We are finally thinking we can go home, but then they ask if we want to watcha movie. Hanna asks if I am up for it so I say sure. We watched Slumdog Millionaire and did not get home till 9:30. It was a long day.
Then on Sunday Hanna and I went to Lugang with two of our students Ella and Minnie. They are our only two morning SPE's and so cute. They speak English amazingly. We first went with just Minnie, her mom, and cousin to the Folk Arts Museum, then we met up with Ella's family at a temple, where it was the goddess birthday so there were tons of people bringing gifts and eating food it was cool. Then we went to a park and fed the fish. Then ate lunch. After that we went to a historic shopping street where I saw on of my 2B-2's so that was funny. Hanna, the girls, and I all held hands and sang Christmas songs, we made quite a scene. After that we headed home, but I was having a killer migraine and was coughing...again. I had this really bad coughing fit that I couldn't stop so we had to stop and get me water, which helped a lot. We got home around 4:45. I then took a nap until 6:30ish. Then Rebeckah had some people over for dinner and Leslie, Hanna, and I went out to eat. I didn't feel good so I didn't eat. Well that was the week I had. And next weekend there will be 3 days of adventures to right about so stay tuned.

Palm Readers and Bowling

So I realize that it has been over a month since I have posted a blog and I apologize. But my new goal is to post every Sunday about the last week. So I am not going to worry about the previous month just last week. Most of my weeks are the same, work a bajillion hours, go to tons of meetings, beg the other teachers to have their stuff in on time, and teach my classes. This week was adding up to be no different until Thursday. I teach two follow-up class 2B-1 and 2B-2, but Hanna has to teach my 2B-2's on Thursdays because of how the schedule works out. Usually this goes okay even though 2B-2's can be monsters. Well I guess Thursday was a particularly bad day which ended up with books being thrown and kids threatening to get Hanna fired (don't worry she won't be). Let's just say Friday saw a lot of tear stained faces as they came into class after having to go see not only Hanna for one-on-one talks, but also Sherry (my boss). It was pretty funny. Then Friday I got to pull a McGuyver as Hanna and I fixed her tub drain with a fork, screwdriver, and floss (you always need floss). Now to palm readers and bowling. Saturday was shaping up to be a boring rainy day (it has been raining for 3 days). Until Molly called, she is one of our Tawianese friends. She invited us to go to Taichung with her, only Hanna and I went. First we had some adventures at the most crowded Costco I have ever seen. Seriously it was hard to walk in their. Then we headed over to a friends house and ate a ton of food and watched Enchanted. One of the ladies there (the landlady) is actually a palm reader and can see the future. So of course I had to have my palm read. She said that my parents have a great marriage and they really love me, I am also very smart because I have a Confucius eye on my thumb (if the lines on the inside of your thumb at the first knuckle form an oval it means you are smart). She also said I will get married before Hanna and I will have a great life. She told me I should stay in Taiwan, but I don't think I will. After this we all went bowling at 11 pm. It was Molly, Hanna, Sue, her 10 year old daughter Sandy, Collin, Derek, Jeanette, and some kid I never met. I came in 3rd the first time and 1st the second. It was a good night. Well that is all for week one of the weekly blog posts.