Wait I thought you were LOST?

They say it's wrong to play favorites ( but lets face it everyone does it) Everyone has those favorite campers, favorite coworkers and favorite on and on and on because they make up for the ones who annoy the crap out of you and you really have to act like you like.... Well i've discovered I have favorite campers today ( though my rational as to why they are my favorites may not be so good..) They are brothers and the one brothers name is John and the other's name is Lock.... Together their names are John Lock one of the great ( well actually he's really turning rather evil and bizarre) characters on LOST one of my favorite shows! I'm completely kidding about the whole favoritism thing they're all great kids and i'm learning equally as much about teaching English this week from these 5 boys as I am actually teaching English( if that makes any sense)

Monday started out rough we read an article on Michael Jackson and things went ok but 2 of my kids ended u sleeping on the couch( and included a very pronounced exclamation that NO ENGLISH LESSON THIS BORING!) so yesterday( on Tuesday) I tried to incorporate more of their interests by using 2 articles on sports since they all said they enjoyed sports ( yeah they failed to mention they like PLAYING!!!! sports not WATCHING sports and they all HATE reading!!) so after going around the circle each reading a paragraph ( from an article about Shaq's new reality show and then one from an article about soccer.... I get not wanting to read about Shaq who would? but they said they liked soccer so I was a little baffled on that one) I asked them to tell me anything they remembered from the article any names any words anything anything......I got nothing..... nothing so I started asking specific questions .... nothing finally we played hangman( I gave someone else a turn to create a puzzle it was a 2 word puzzle the first word was 2 blanks the 2nd word was 6 with an exclamation mark at the end... it spelled SO BORING!) finally I just outright said what can we do that would be a fun way to learn English for you.... he came out with his Chinese book he said look loook and I said I can't read that and he said we can't read that you're asking us to do the same thing! no fun So we agreed I would bring more interesting stuff and play more interactive games( like trashket ball) for secondary students not primary students( which is how they were feeling) and they would focus more. Also were trying yet again to teach me chinese.... When I attempted to say what I thought was what I had learned last week ( from this little cute 8 year old girl) I found instead of eat I was saying feices.... And on that note it's time to get ready to start the day.

Today is an outting day.... We head out to the science museum, The ladies Market, and then a Korean Barbeque. Should be very exciting. Hope everyone is enjoying summer.

Ni Hao
Tina