Stories, rehearsing, getting ready for a new show: number three in three weeks. We are all VERY tired, but will miss these kids! Some VERY lovely children. I had a stereotype that the kids would look so much alike. Especially here in Shenzhen, people have come from all over China and form all ethnic groups. There is a great variety in what the kids look like.
They are really enjoying hearing me tell folktales from Mexico and other Latin American countries. Very, very fun to share these cultures with one another.
Today when I was telling the older students a scary story from Columbia called the Rooster’s foot, when I held my hand up as though it was a chicken foot and said, “This is no ordinary chicken’s foot…” a huge rolling noise of thunder filled the room and all the kids gasped! How cool is that? Those times when the universe cooperates perfectly with your story are very precious!
Today was my roommate Jenny’s birthday, so there was a message on the school marquee. A brunch of us went out for a birthday dinner to a VERY excellent Chinese restaurant that Jenny had gone to with her host family. We were highly grateful when they brought out the English menu so we could avoid the braised dog and peg ear and shallot salad. The food we ate was great!
Then a couple women had bought her a birthday cake. It was highly interesting with a combination of something like spice cake on the bottom, and a layer of cheese cake with purple jello on top, with whipped cream, kiwi, peach and a cherry TOMATO on top. Jenny tried it to make sure it was a tomato and IT WAS! Hmmmmm. I guess technically tomato is a fruit, but really!
Then we strolled about shopping. There are so many interesting places, cool shows and funny signs as we try to find our way around. We all feel quite proud of our abilities to navigate, especially because we never really got a map in English. That makes some of it pretty tough.
To bed and then let’s do it again!
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