Today I completed my first full week of class. The two classes I had this morning both went pretty well, much better than my first time with these students last Friday. We have a textbook although I don't plan to use it too much. I think I'll use the general topics for each unit as a guide and have the students do some reading from the textbook for homework, but in class I'm going to try to do other activities. Today's topic was water conservation so we did some discussion-based activities related to environmental conservation and economic development.
I also found out this morning that today is national teacher's day in China. I received a few gifts from some of the students; a small, nice-looking apple (about two inches in diameter), a fan made of wood and silk with calligraphy on one side and a picture of a famous building in Nanchang, the capital of Jiangxi province, on the other, and a greeting card from English Education Class 2, my second class on Friday mornings.
Tonight there's a performance at school that is, I think, in celebration of teacher's day. Some of the other teachers and I will be taking the bus at 6:30 back to the new campus to watch the show.
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