We had a half day today as we only have a class in the afternoon on Wednesdays. After last nights unexpectedly late night and several days of being busy busy busy we had a well deserved lie in! But we headed in to uni for 12 in order to speak to Carolyn who was the woman who organised the classes we’re doing. She is also the woman in charge of organising the ‘English Corner’ lessons, which are basically just English lessons for the Chinese students. Having three British students has obviously been an advantage for them in some ways as they have asked us to help teach the class and speak English for them to improve their skills. We found out that we were pretty much organising and planning the class which came as a bit of a surprise to us! We were nervous but we decided to create a few games for the students to play which would help them with words and spelling. We also printed off a few tongue twisters so that if there was someone who got something wrong, they would have to stand up and read one. This was extremely entertaining!! Peter Piper especially! Carolyn actually left us to it about half an hour into the 3 hour lesson so we were on our own teaching this class! But I think that considering we’d had very little time to prepare and not known what to expect, and also with the help of HongBon, we did a pretty good job! Some of the students knew a fair bit of English like HongBon but there were quite a few who understood very little so it was difficult to get them to understand what we wanted them to do but they seemed to have a good laugh, especially when mine, Rosie’s and Tori’s punishment was to recite a Chinese rap song whenever we made a mistake during the games! They seemed to find that enormously amusing!! It was a good afternoon and it was great to be so interactive with the other students. I’ve got quite a lot of inspiration for was kind of activities we could do in next week’s class so I’m looking forward to that.
Tonight we’ve had another incredible thunder and lightning storm! Even bigger than Saturday night, and this time it was right above our heads. It has been really hot and humid all day so I’m not surprised that the weather has broken out like this! Me and Rosie sat on the balcony for a while and watched the spectacular bolts of lightning break through the clouds this evening. Everything is calm now though so I’m sat getting on with some coursework ready to take to Uni next week, as we have the next 4 days off for the Chinese Autumn Festival! No idea what’s happening or what we’re going to do but let’s just see! (HongBon has some plans for us :D) I’m so excited!!
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