Red Christmas

Upon reviewing my previous blog entry I've realized it is probably not appropriate for those of you wishing to know more about my adventures in China as opposed to my adventures in the bathroom (which is more commonly referred to as the watercloset or WC here).

Well, it's Monday December 21st. Christmas is on Friday. Today my students tried to trick me. I gave them homework to do and they claimed it was unfair because Christmas was coming...but you see, the thing is, Christmas is not a holiday in China. It's tricky to teach a teen, to teach a teen, to teach a teen...

My students have been tricking me a lot lately. On Friday I came to class 1 minute late (I make my students do pushups and squats when they're late...I do the same) and found the classroom empty. So I left to go looking for them. Mystified at their disappearance and with a tailor desperately trying to measure me for a school uniform as I charged around the building searching for my students, I ended up back in my classroom 5 minutes later...but something was different! The lights were off...when I turned them back on it was to find an entire class of students pretending to be asleep at their desks! They'd hidden behind the curtain to fool me when I first arrived and then demanded that I do 6 minutes of pushups instead of 1! It's pretty hilarious to listen to a group of students, pretending to be indignant, demand, in broken English, that you owe them pushups, in a Chinese accent. Today they offered me some 'candy'...it was hot wasabi flavour. Later, the 'good girl' in the class offered me a cracker...yep, hot wasabi flavour again. Even she has fallen under the sway of tricking poor Mr Harvie. So I'm now in the business of seeking revenge. If you know of any good shafts, please pass them along to me.