Well the October break has officially started for EVERYONE else but our college and a few other colleges. It was crazy when Weifang has realized they had a few cases of "H1N1" the city literally shut down. There was hardly anyone out.....(which is quite crazy considering Weifang is 800,000-8.5 Million haha depending on who we ask!) It does help with not spreading it, because Weifang was known as a "breakout city" which basically means there are infected people here. But there hasn't been anymore reports and although I had alot of students missing this week because they had to go to the "hospital" our college hasn't had any reported cases with the swine flu...yet. Granted our students go to the doctor for everything. So not only did they cancel the break but the one day they gave the students off for National Holiday (Thursday) because of tradition...they are making the students make up those classes on Saturday because they do not want any of the students leaving....and if a student does leave, they will not be allowed back into the college until after this H1N1(swine flu) scare is over. Insane! If we plan on traveling, which we do, we just don't tell anyone! They still have us check our temperatures twice a day and if we leave the campus the guards are ready with their infared gun to check our temperatures before we can enter the campus. We actually have met quite a few foreigners while we have been here. We went to a dinner celebrating the 60th anniversary of P.R. Chinar(our students always put unnecessary RRR's into ALOT of words so it is a joke with us!) and all the foreigner teachers were invited. I was surprise of how many there were, and from all over the world. We went out with some teachers that were all about the same age the other night. There was 7 of us. It was nice to talk to other Americans. Then we met another older couple from Canada at Mcdonalds getting some icecream and they were really nice. They are getting paid 7,000 RMB a month! I can only imagine haha we get paid 3600RMB which we though was pretty good. She gave us some contact information for when we come back!!!! We will probably come back after Adam gets his Bachelors and stay for a whole year and then find a job in China or in the States and go to Law school or something! We don't know! We do love China even in all its craziness, we love being here. Adam said that if we live here he would make enough money to fly the "Grandparents" over! (But we probably won't be adding any more grandchildren to the bunch for alteast a few years!!) But we will still fly Mom and Dad over! Maybe when we stay for a year! Some of the things that I don't want to forget is some of the things that we see....I wish I could upload pictures but I will just give a list for now!
~Chinese Driving! It is insane!!!! No way to describe it..one day Kayt and I are going to sit on a corner and just video it.
~Our students wear glass frames but pop out the lenses! It is quite a popular trend at our college.
~They wear these contact lenses with a black ring so that their eyes look bigger, and they have contacts with designs on them, stars, circles, and swirls.
~We love their fashion! What they wear and all the English translations that make no sense! A popular shirt says **BOYS NEED YOGA TOO**this one actually makes sense.
~Funny translations not only on clothing but billboards, advertising, anything!
~Gloried mullets- A-line haircuts with the bottom layer of hair kept really long. The boys love their hair, and have pretty cool hair styles! I will try to be more bold and take pictures of them.
~The English names they come up with! For example; {Boys} TripO, Leaf, Deamns.song, Prin, Bach, Michael Scofield, Aio, Iverson, Rock, Momo, Knight, Fenly, Dragon, Pitt, Harley, Yuma, Kaka...{Girsl} Princess, Mochica, Shasha, Flora, Ciliffi, Allen, Owen, Banana, Shadow, Clear, Polaris, Memory, Fancy, Napolean, Delone, Wenly, Anrow, and Matinda!
If anyone is prego here is a list of names for ya!
This is just a few of the things that make us laugh!
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2 comments:
oh, if i ever have a girl, i'll name her princess. but, i'll add an extra R in there in memory of your trip to chinar (maybe "princress"? or "princesser" perhaps?). we had japanese students all the time growing up and i remember them adding R's in words, but also throwing in some L's as well. my name was "salah" and my brother, jared, was "jah-led". it was awesome! i hope the craziness calms down for you there and i'm so excited for your plans. btw when are you actually coming back?? anyway, keep up the updates...i love reading them!! miss you tons, dantzelle-wa!
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