Today was outting day at the Mother's Choice Fun With English Cultural Exchange program( A lengthy name for a program where we play games mostly, do some crafts, and then toss in a half our "English time" - and when asked what there least favorite part of the day is they say the English time. sounds like a lot of fun with English to me) Lengthy parenthesis. Anyways Today we started our morning later than normal( 9:00) because we met the kids at the art museum. It was quite rainy out to start today which was making for a pleasent morning ( The thought of attempting to take 3 kids through an outdoor market in the rain and making them say words in English ... yeah I didn't think that would go over real well) Anyways we first went to the art museum where we received a tour( in Cantanese of course- it was very informative I can safely say I know the exact same amount exiting that museum as I did entering- i'd dare say many of the kids feel the same way because the guide was a bit long winded)
Following the museumt we headed to the American club for our lunch. Yesterday we had talked and Maggie and I did a very succesful skit, might I add, on proper and improper manors. So we thought that the lunch would go fairly smoothly. Things went ok until kids went into the bathroom. It was a downward spiral after that as far as lunch goes so much for proper etiquet ( although we did get some pretty good laughs over it all) There were combs in the bathroom which i'm pretty sure probably every kid has like 4 of now, and they all went to the bathroom at least 4 times and burped at the table(we failed to mention that was poor manors). And they certainly have different taste on food, the tomatoe soup was too sour, the chicken fettucini was too spicy because of the pepper( it really wasn't spicy at all it was simply ground pepper they just have different tastes) yet they were soo fascinated by the pepper grinder that they continued to add more pepper, the brownie was too sweet. For Lisa, Maggie, Laura, and I the food was Amazing!!! we haven't had American food( other than McDonalds) since we've been here and trust me we( politely) devoured everything! After that we headed to stanley market which actually went better than the early portion of the day.
Finally, after we had gotten the kids back on the bus to head back to the group home, we headed back into the market for what you might call some retail therapy... very stressful day. Also, an amazing Almond croissant from Delifrance( yeah wierd i'm not in france so why is there a deli from there here right? I've been asking myself that too) but this croissant would've put even the best bonquet to shame... it was amazing! Tonight, we're doing a little planning and relaxing because rather than a half day camp today we spent a full day and were all exhausted( good thing none of us were education majors!)well you live and learn soo hopefully next week will go a bit smoother.
Cheers.
Tina
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