Tuesday, December 23, 2008

Christmas season in China


Sorry for lack of updates. Prepare for a veritable barrage of them now.

There's always lot's going on here. I really only work about 18 hours a week (26 if you count the time I have to sit around at Greenland in between classes.) but there's almost always something that I'm running off too.

Sara's school had a Christmas performance on Sunday, and since Saffron and Chris were in it, I came along to watch. It was about a 50/50 mixture of cliche and cute. Each of the classes came on stage to perform a song or small play. Despite most of it being pantomimed to either music or the children's prerecorded words, the parents loved it. These are, I must remind myself, only 6~ year old kids, and just remembering their places on stage is a big task for them. They did a very good job.

Chris and Saffron went on about two thirds through and sang a song called Tian Mi Mi. Apparently it's a very popular song here, because everyone in the audience sang along.


They both got to wear traditional Chinese outfits for the song.


I also ran into one of my own students while I was there. I guess he goes to the elementary school as well as the evening classes at Saras school.


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After the performance was over Saffron and Chris put on Santa outfits and handed out presents.


Thug life, yo!

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