Well I figured one last good post ought to do it.

Plus it gave me an excuse to embaress my kids by taking pictures of them today.

Here we see our fortuitous meeting in which the decisions were decided and the plans were planned. I was already mentally and spiritually prepared but this is where it became official. By the way if you are ever in Xining this is one of the best restaurants for tibetan food ...it sounds like Soogeeneema.



My kids...what can I say about them? Well half of them are adorable and the other half can be real pains in the ass, how's that?? This week has been funny to me...more clowning around with them and having fun. Chinese culture is very different from ours in some ways...like kids having boyfriend/girlfriend. Also some things which we would joke about are pretty embaressing to them, but you know me I joke about it anyway.


These younger kids are cute though right? They are the most eager to learn, definetly the easiest to motivate.
The girl smiling in the front row is one of my favorites. She is adorable, and one of the best students. I didn't feel like telling my classes that this would be the last time I would see them, probably the next teacher will be a lot more strict than me and I don't want them to look forward to it...better one swift blow than a week and a half of thinking about it.

They are really sweet though and some of them are real characters. Today some kids came in late and they reeked of smoke. Of course I called them on it, much to their embaressment and the delight of the rest of the class. The clowns actually tried to play it off. I taught my friends last night one of my favorite american sayings... "you can't bullshit a bullshitter"

So this should be my last post...I'll try to get back before I leave to check my email, but so long.\ true believers.