I woke up this morning and walked over to the MinRun (Pronounced "MeenRune") Market to grab a drink before class. It was neat, the usual stares and the occasional "Hello" from random people passing by, it kind of makes you feel like a celebrity. I ate breakfast as usual at the GLV center, talk about the blandest noodles you could think of... it was awful. But I did have this little white fluffy thing with sweet bean inside of it, it was quite the picker-upper.

So today the workload begins. We are preparing for our mock classrooms on Friday where each student has to play "teacher" for 15 minutes. We have to either speak a different language that we know, or we can make up a language to teach. This exercise is merely to get in the motions of teaching language and its components.

The classroom today was Awfully boring... i mean beyond the point of boredom that when it was time to go half the class was out of the room before Shireen (our teacher) said "bye". I honestly caught myself sleep like about 3 times and looked around the room really quick in attempts to grasp how long I was out.

Me and the rest of the "Meiguo's" ("Americans" in my sarcastic Chinese tone) were basically on one side of the room pretending to be the most enthused by the material, sometimes faking it really helps! Needless to say the LanguageCorps crew stays pretty much above par the entire time, above par to the point that its almost a mockery...gotta love it.

The few Brits in the room are absolutely hilarious, I mean hilarious. There is this guy named Sid, straight up looks like Crocodile Dundee (but is British) but he is constantly complaining about how hot he is in China and how he hates the weather, but he has been living in China for like 7 years!!!! He even refused to live in our crappy pro-jects and is living in a 178 kuai a night hotel for this month. I swear if you saw this guy, you would fall out, every manerism this guy has screams out "Im just too hot to even think" and he looks at whoever is next to him and always says "Wuh is goain oan in thissss clawssss, its bloAAA Hawwt!" I honestly cant stop laughing.

The two people from Whales pretty much stick to themselves and no other... they also seem to be very quiet and go with the flow-ish. But by far the coolest dude in the room is this 58 year old 5'1 Japanese dude named Moto, he knows very little English so he is always nervous about his English skills, however, the dude basically does better than most of the others in the class!...crazy times.




Outside of that, we had another regional dispute today.

Ok say this word to yourself "NIGERIA"... now when you say "NIGERIA" are you pronouncing it " NYE-GER-AY?" NO! Do you know why you are not saying it like that? Because the word is NIGERIA and not NIGERAE or NIGEREE or whatever the is clearly an "EE-YA or EE-Ah" sound at the end; maybe my articulation is just off, but it was war for like 30 minutes; and of course the Meiguo's made a scene yet again due to this, (we can't help it, we not know what we do).


I am going to Shanghai in like a week and a half or so to visit some schools and see what jobs and housing situations are out there for me. Money at the moment is not an issue, but I know as soon as the move hits, its gonna hit me pretty hard...not really going to know how to adjust to that issue just yet, but I will figure something out.

Outside of that people all is well and I am workin stuff out!