Back to school again. It is amazing how one week can make such a difference in terms of having some routines in place for the students and us.
Today was a pretty straightforward day. We did some evaluations for last week (one child wrote that Miss Patti’s class was his best one;-) ), as well as began to study careers. I was able to share the original story frame that I wrote about a little girl who always heard, “What are you going to be when you grew up?” and hated it. She started thinking that she loved math so maybe she could have a job with math (what jobs use math, boys and girls?) Also loved music, liked to talk. She hated cleaning, and writing, too much, so she knew she should avoid other jobs (again, group brain storming). This worked quite well with my classes and I was surprised at the vocabulary that the students had…they knew a lot of English job words.
We are trying to find the “culturally appropriate” ways to work with these students about career choice. We are in one of the first generations of children in China that have greater choice in careers. We will be very interested at what the parents have to say when they come on Friday. We will be having another performance, but this one is tougher in terms of gearing a performance on what we are doing about career exploration. Hold on to your hats as we try to work it out.
A student brought the song 2 What U Wanna B to us, which is a popular song that really encourages kids to explore. We will be sharing that in some way.
A number of our teachers have gotten sick. I decided to try and lay a bit low and take care NOT to get sick. That doesn’t sound (or look) fun: to be sick in China.
How about to bed early tonight? I continue to be able to SKYPE with my husband, sometimes right before we go to breakfast and then over lunch break. Being 15 hours different, and needing to work around when each of us would be available is challenging, but workable.
Somehow we are nearing the halfway point. This time will keep going by so quickly.
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