Good Morning Lovlies!
Another day in the classroom and another day with some great teachers. We worked hard today --- our teachers continued to discover their visual, auditory and kinesthetic learning styles and then spent the afternoon diving into some research papers -- they made a flipbook just like you!
Our big adventure for the day was going out to lunch by ourselves. And trust me this was an adventure. You walk into this huge room full of display plates of food and then pick what you want them to fry up for you. The thing is we are never really 100% about what it is we are looking at are desperately trying to avoid eating 'insides'. I know I told you that I like bone marrow but stomach and intestines are way beyond my scope of adventure. The other thing that is most shocking is that when you walk by the display plates with fish or prawns on them --- they are still moving!
Our final treat of the day was that one of the teachers took us to a community center to attend a yoga class. We thought she did yoga as well and was going to join us, but oh no, she took us there to participate on our own -- a certain amount gets lost in translation when we are communicating even though their English is very good. So there we are, Mrs Brajcich and I the large blonde ladies in a group of about 8 doing yoga. Of course we have no idea what the instructions are so we spent a great deal of time watching the people around us trying to figure it all out. There was a part at the beginning where we were supposed to be meditating (I think), Everyone had their eyes closed and the instructor was speaking, but I had to keep peeking because I didn't know what was going on:)
Unfortunately, by the time we got back to our hotel the restaurant was closed so I had to break open one of my instant oatmeal packages and have that and a banana for dinner:)
I hope you are enjoying your time with Mr. Spence and maintaining your growth mindset -- I know I'd be lost here in China if I didn't believe I could learn and grow each day.
Miss you --- and post comments please!!!!!!!
Another day in the classroom and another day with some great teachers. We worked hard today --- our teachers continued to discover their visual, auditory and kinesthetic learning styles and then spent the afternoon diving into some research papers -- they made a flipbook just like you!
Our big adventure for the day was going out to lunch by ourselves. And trust me this was an adventure. You walk into this huge room full of display plates of food and then pick what you want them to fry up for you. The thing is we are never really 100% about what it is we are looking at are desperately trying to avoid eating 'insides'. I know I told you that I like bone marrow but stomach and intestines are way beyond my scope of adventure. The other thing that is most shocking is that when you walk by the display plates with fish or prawns on them --- they are still moving!
Our final treat of the day was that one of the teachers took us to a community center to attend a yoga class. We thought she did yoga as well and was going to join us, but oh no, she took us there to participate on our own -- a certain amount gets lost in translation when we are communicating even though their English is very good. So there we are, Mrs Brajcich and I the large blonde ladies in a group of about 8 doing yoga. Of course we have no idea what the instructions are so we spent a great deal of time watching the people around us trying to figure it all out. There was a part at the beginning where we were supposed to be meditating (I think), Everyone had their eyes closed and the instructor was speaking, but I had to keep peeking because I didn't know what was going on:)
Unfortunately, by the time we got back to our hotel the restaurant was closed so I had to break open one of my instant oatmeal packages and have that and a banana for dinner:)
I hope you are enjoying your time with Mr. Spence and maintaining your growth mindset -- I know I'd be lost here in China if I didn't believe I could learn and grow each day.
Miss you --- and post comments please!!!!!!!