Today is Labour Day in China. It is a national holiday and there are no classes (not that I have any classes on Friday anyway but Bob does). This is the first year there hasn't been a seven day holiday for Labour day. It was called Golden Week, but the government saw fit to change Golden Week into several long week-ends instead, so this year we had Tomb Sweeping Day and Labour Day and will have Dragon Boat day at the end of May. Many people are upset about the change and there have been petitions about changing it back to a week, but no luck. We chose not to go travelling this week-end. There are very few students around the campus.
Last Friday we celebrated Bob's birthday a couple of weeks late by going out for Mexican Food with some friends. They came to our apartment after for brownies and ice cream.
Sunday night we had to do English Corner again. Does anybody have any suggestions for some good games to play with a group in a classroom? We have one more English Corner left. We did a get acquainted game, twenty questions and a guessing game where they had to draw pictures on the board for their group to figure out a word.
Summer and very hot weather has arrived in Nanjing. Many girls have their parasols or umbrellas out so they won't get a sun tan. I keep hoping it won't get any warmer until we leave at the end of June, although I am told it rains all May in Nanjing, so maybe it won't get too hot. The roses are out and are beautiful and the winter cabbage plants have all been changed. There are big lanterns hanging at the gate.
Since Times Grocery store is out of Dr. Pepper and we heard that they sometimes have it at a store in Aqua City (a new mall that opened last November) we decided to visit the Mall this afternoon. It is a big mall built around a dome with a round courtyard in the center. It is several stories high with two basements. Most of the stores are foreign such as Dockers, Lee, Polo etc. and the goods are very expensive. A pair of dockers would cost over half a months salary. The nice thing about the mall was that it wasn't crowded. Unfortunately we didn't find any Dr. Pepper. There are fountains all around the building.
We can buy the most delicious pineapple here in Nanjing and the nice thing about it is it is peeled when we buy it. We just have to slice it up.
3 comments:
Well I was looking for something fun for you to do with your students. I found lots of ideas online. Here is one that I thought was both appropriate for the age and could lead into some good discussions possibly. This activity is called "snowball fight".
* From Terry M: This activity is called "snowball fight".
This activity is called "snowball fight". Each participant writes a question or a statement about the topic you choose on a blank sheet of paper, then balls up the paper to form a snowball. On your command, they commence in a "snowball fight" until all the snowballs have hit the ground. Then each participant picks up a snowball off the ground and reads the question or statement.
If questions were required, the recipient should also try to answer the question - with any misconceptions corrected by you. If statements were required, then the recipient should state whether they agree or disagree and why or why not.
I don't know if you can access any of these websites, but they have great activities as well.
http://iteslj.org/c/games.html
http://www.teflgames.com/games.html
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Delphi/1979/games.html
Well these are just a few. Let me know if you need more.
Good Luck!
I miss the pineapple.
Had a Dr. Pepper today and thought of you.
Post a Comment