I am Hong Kong people.

Today was a great Hong Kong day. After today I feel like if I wanted to, I could move to Hong Kong, teach English, and be happy here for a very long time. I feel like I would even have friends!
I was so nervous going into today because it would be our first time with a classroom full of kids all to ourself, meaning we were not paired up with each other or anything like that. We were given Bible stories to teach our middle school students with the end goal that they would act them out tomorrow at the end of the day. Given the way our drama teaching went last week, I was not looking forward to it. However, it went so well. Not flawless, still a little nerve-wracking, but all in all I am very pleased about how it went and I am actually looking forward to tomorrow. I even had kids volunteer for parts in the play!
After teaching, I went to lunch with the same group of high schoolers that took me out on the town a couple weeks ago. They are still awesome. They invited me and my friends to their volleyball game. It was so much fun! We watched them play a few games, then we went to eat dinner at this awesome restaurant that didn't have any English menus let alone employees that spoke English, so we had to drag one lady outside where there were pictures of food on the windows and point to what we wanted. I think it was my favorite meal I have had here with the exception of the buffet in mainland China. We went back to the volleyball games and played some pick up basketball and just hung out with some people. I legitimately feel like these students are becoming my friends and that I could hang out with them on a regular basis and be fine. It is so cool to have this group of students constant while we are here. We bounce around from school to school and from age group to age group and it feels like we are not able to make any sort of connection with any of the students because we are only working with them for such a short time, but then there are these high schoolers that we keep interacting with outside of school. I love it and I think I am going to miss them most when this is all over.

1 comments:

Kristen said...

i couldn't agree more. with everything. love you girl!!!!

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