teachwa, bafaloom!

One of my favorite phrases as spoken by the chillins, 'Teachwa, bafaloom!' It makes my day every time. Today was interesting. It was really rough in the beginning and the kids were crazy like usual. My lesson was hard to teach because sometimes games are hard to explain to the younger classes. But eventually I got the hang of it and it was really really fun. It's funny how your mindset changes and it just effects everything else. I just felt a lot better and more relaxed and just felt soooo much love for the kids. They're so wonderful and I'm sooooo glad to be here in Xiaolan at our little Ming de kindergarden.
Kambrie and I went with Maddie to NanLang where she taught last semester. We got to see where she lived and some of her kids. It was so fun for her and she was just on cloud 9. It made me think about how amazing it would be to come back! Ahh It's going to kill me saying goodbye to these kids. Their school was really nice and their kids were super smart and well behaved. We kept thinking, wow wouldn't it be nice.. but then we realized that there's no where else we'd rather be and we wouldn't change our school or our kids or our city for ANYTHING else.

Little half German half chinese Kevin

Maddie and her favorites, Tony, Kevin and Peter

I just can't say enough how much I love it here. We also met the head teacher of the three teachers and let's just say it made me really really grateful for Maddie who is THE best head teacher ever and wants us to have fun and does so much so we can enjoy our experience. I'm so blessed and couldn't have hand picked a better group of girls!
As for everything else, we're staying pretty busy with being sick, teaching afternoon classes, teacher meetings and just random fun adventures. the afternoon classes are sooo funny. I only teach monday and wednesday and they don't speak a lick of english. They just stare blankly because they don't understand the repeating concept yet. It will be fun though, and less stressful. We basically just play games with them. Teaching is just the best. This weekend is really busy and it's going to be a blast, which I'm sure you'll hear about soon! :)

Me teaching class. I love these kids