My friend Bruce asked three of us foreign teachers to judge an English speaking competition at a local school specialized in teaching English. We judged two sessions of the competition in which there were some hilarious speeches. Two common songs were....'hello, hello, hello, hello, HELLO!' and 'sing, sing, sing, sing, SING!'....also many would say, 'my mother is beautiful, my father is cool, and i am lovely.' most of them pretty much had the hand movements down too to go along with their words. many gave speeches on the ugly duckling, snow white, and little red riding hood. all in all it was a cool experience. much of the world is trying to copy our culture with Disney characters, stories, and songs and learn English to compete with a global economy.
Started my new class today on watercolor and oil painting. it went very well and i am learning a lot about art as i teach it. i'm gonna come up with some cool ideas of things to have my students paint such as shoe boxes, trash cans, clothes, etc.
Thanksgiving was good, all the foreign teachers went to Colombo bbq where they serve up meat samurai style on swords and shear off the meat with a rambo knife right onto your plate, accompanied by their in-house made brew which is definitely better than most of the chinese beers aka snow, chero, liberty, blue diamond, fake budweisere, etc, et al.
Just booked several flights for my paid 6-week winter vacation....gotta love teaching! I am going to guanzhou, shanghai, hong kong, wuhan, bangkok thailand, angkor wat in cambodia, fuzhou and xiamen in fujian province, most likely somewhere in taiwan, and possibly tibet....as well as what other cities life takes me on my journey....it's gonna be epic/fo sho/true/$/awesome/chyeah/word/daps/dope/loving life....
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