Wednesday 5th September 2012
Today I was told I had to wake up
early. Early for me is when I have to get up for work at 6am, I do not appreciate that time in the morning. At all. So it was a lovely surprise when my chum got me up at 8am. We had to go the police
station to apply for my temporary residence permit and it turns out I didn't
need the pictures that were taken yesterday. Thank goodness we didn't pay for them!
However, when I got to the CC experiment centre, I found out that pretty much everyone else had to use their pictures so that was quite worrying! I was just hoping that we had all applied for the same thing, it would be rather awkward if we didn't.
We split up into two teams again, this time I was with Georgia, Matt, James, Josh and Ollie, when he eventually turned up an hour and a half late. We walked to another branch of the CC english school and went to a classroom with 6 other teachers. We had another morning of getting to know each other style games. At first we played charades which is definitely hilarious to play with the teachers.
Then we had to pick a folded piece of
paper with something to do with our childhood on it. Typically I was picked to
go first and ended up with having to teach my favourite song from my childhood.
Twinkle twinkle little star was the first one that I could think of so I taught
that pretty well if I do say so myself, obviously working at a nursery has helped me exceed expectations, the teachers were loving it! Georgia
had to say her favourite subject and she said art as a joke! So I shouted out
for her to draw something to which she went bright red and looked completely
horrified! It was hilarious. Anyone that knows Georgia knows how awful she is at drawing. Bless. She ended up drawing a few faces and we pretended
that that sort of art that got the best grades. The worrying thing was that they actually believed us.
Then some random teacher said her favourite subject was music, so she sang Adele-Someone like you! And then she pulled Ollie up to sing to Justin Bieber - Baby luckily he's a good sport and went along with it.
Then guess where we went for lunch... KFC again! Georgia had had KFC for breakfast again, so we were all dropping hints that we liked pizza hut or traditional Chinese food. They completely ignored all hints that were made. The KFC was the biggest one we had been in so far, and we had our first experience of some random Chinese people that we didn't know taking photos of us. Now that was surreal. It was almost like we were famous. I've just realised I don't think I've mentioned that in GuiYang, it was very rare to find any other race other than Chinese. The majority of the Chinese citizens had never seen a white person in real life before.
Then we went to Hebin park, although we weren't allowed on the rides which was a shame. with about 40 other teachers! I was surprised that a school could have this many teachers! We did some more team building games not surprisingly, and we eventually ended up having a massive game of football which was good fun. The best game we played was where we had to pass balloons to each other just using our legs. Now, I was well practiced at this game, probably because I have been involved in Girl Guiding thanks to my mum for as long as I can remember. The teachers weren't. Their reactions to it were very amusing!
Another highlight was James attempting to teach a few of the teachers to do the worm. Lets just say that this didn't go well. At all.
The bus back to CC English experiment centre was crazy. It was ridiculously full. This was my first experience of being completely crammed in the buses. It wasn't ideal! Looking back now, it was totally unnecessary as the park is less than ten minutes away from the school by foot. I think they just presume all English people are lazy and need to get transport.
However, when I got to the CC experiment centre, I found out that pretty much everyone else had to use their pictures so that was quite worrying! I was just hoping that we had all applied for the same thing, it would be rather awkward if we didn't.
We split up into two teams again, this time I was with Georgia, Matt, James, Josh and Ollie, when he eventually turned up an hour and a half late. We walked to another branch of the CC english school and went to a classroom with 6 other teachers. We had another morning of getting to know each other style games. At first we played charades which is definitely hilarious to play with the teachers.
Then some random teacher said her favourite subject was music, so she sang Adele-Someone like you! And then she pulled Ollie up to sing to Justin Bieber - Baby luckily he's a good sport and went along with it.
Then guess where we went for lunch... KFC again! Georgia had had KFC for breakfast again, so we were all dropping hints that we liked pizza hut or traditional Chinese food. They completely ignored all hints that were made. The KFC was the biggest one we had been in so far, and we had our first experience of some random Chinese people that we didn't know taking photos of us. Now that was surreal. It was almost like we were famous. I've just realised I don't think I've mentioned that in GuiYang, it was very rare to find any other race other than Chinese. The majority of the Chinese citizens had never seen a white person in real life before.
Then we went to Hebin park, although we weren't allowed on the rides which was a shame. with about 40 other teachers! I was surprised that a school could have this many teachers! We did some more team building games not surprisingly, and we eventually ended up having a massive game of football which was good fun. The best game we played was where we had to pass balloons to each other just using our legs. Now, I was well practiced at this game, probably because I have been involved in Girl Guiding thanks to my mum for as long as I can remember. The teachers weren't. Their reactions to it were very amusing!
Another highlight was James attempting to teach a few of the teachers to do the worm. Lets just say that this didn't go well. At all.
The bus back to CC English experiment centre was crazy. It was ridiculously full. This was my first experience of being completely crammed in the buses. It wasn't ideal! Looking back now, it was totally unnecessary as the park is less than ten minutes away from the school by foot. I think they just presume all English people are lazy and need to get transport.
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