Well I have not posted in a while and so it is time to give everyone an update. If I have learned anything while I have been here it is to expect the unexpected! I have had a number of unexpected moments at work in the last two months. Here is a list of some of the crazier moments:
1. I caught a rat lurking around the washrooms and had to trap it in a bathroom and get the guard to come and bop it on the head.
2. We found out that my room had a crack in the wall after a lot of water started mysteriously showing up on my classroom floor after a rain. One day, near the end of the day my students were sitting on a couch reading and two men came in to assess the problem. They were looking at some pipes in the wall when suddenly one opened and a huge geyser came flooding out of the wall, soaking my kids head to toe with China water of questionable sanitation. Once they finally turned it off and I got my kids out of the line of fire, they left! Yep they just left, leaving behind a pool of water. Our nice cleaner and I scooped up the water with a broom and dust pan and she mopped it up, I left the fans on for the night and some how everything was dry by the next morning.
1. I caught a rat lurking around the washrooms and had to trap it in a bathroom and get the guard to come and bop it on the head.
2. We found out that my room had a crack in the wall after a lot of water started mysteriously showing up on my classroom floor after a rain. One day, near the end of the day my students were sitting on a couch reading and two men came in to assess the problem. They were looking at some pipes in the wall when suddenly one opened and a huge geyser came flooding out of the wall, soaking my kids head to toe with China water of questionable sanitation. Once they finally turned it off and I got my kids out of the line of fire, they left! Yep they just left, leaving behind a pool of water. Our nice cleaner and I scooped up the water with a broom and dust pan and she mopped it up, I left the fans on for the night and some how everything was dry by the next morning.
3. About two weeks after easter I started to smell a funny stench in my classroom. I had thought that I started to smell it after I had turned my air conditioner on. It smelled fowl, like a dead animal was hiding somewhere. The kids left and we came back to school the next day and right after the students arrived for school in the morning and I turned my a/c on the smell returned. We searched and searched for the smell and finally figured out that it was coming from a students backpack! Luckily it wasn't a dead rat in the air conditioner like I suspected. It was two rotten, hard boiled eggs in a sealed plastic bag. The kids had decorated them for easter and were supposed to take them home, but two weeks later, left in a backpack with hot and humid weather and those eggs were unrecognizable and one of the worst smells I have ever smelled!
4. I have noticed a weird thing growing on my roof close to my desk, it looks kind of like some sort of animal making a nest of some sort. Recently I noticed it was expanding so I got the Chinese teacher to ask the guard to come take a look. After some inspection he got a bamboo stick and knocked it down to find out that it was white ants, also known as Termites! Since then they have started to rebuild and another small home has popped up. I will update on the situation when I find out what will happen. I may not have a classroom by the end of the year, it might just be a crumbled pile of bricks by the end of the year!
4. I have noticed a weird thing growing on my roof close to my desk, it looks kind of like some sort of animal making a nest of some sort. Recently I noticed it was expanding so I got the Chinese teacher to ask the guard to come take a look. After some inspection he got a bamboo stick and knocked it down to find out that it was white ants, also known as Termites! Since then they have started to rebuild and another small home has popped up. I will update on the situation when I find out what will happen. I may not have a classroom by the end of the year, it might just be a crumbled pile of bricks by the end of the year!
So those have been part of the excitement and stress that has been keeping me busy over the last couple months.
I have decided that I am going to make an effort to try and take more pictures of my daily life. I have been struggling with photography because on one hand I love having good pictures to keep as memories and to share with you. On the other hand my good camera is heavy and annoying to carry around all the time and the purpose of most of my pictures is simply to capture the moment, not to take and amazing photograph. So I have decided that the best camera is the one that I have with me! I will still use my good camera for pics, but I am not going to worry so much about it and instead take lots of other pics with my Ipad. Here are some pictures and videos of my daily life and a trip to Macao from a few weeks ago. Enjoy!
I have decided that I am going to make an effort to try and take more pictures of my daily life. I have been struggling with photography because on one hand I love having good pictures to keep as memories and to share with you. On the other hand my good camera is heavy and annoying to carry around all the time and the purpose of most of my pictures is simply to capture the moment, not to take and amazing photograph. So I have decided that the best camera is the one that I have with me! I will still use my good camera for pics, but I am not going to worry so much about it and instead take lots of other pics with my Ipad. Here are some pictures and videos of my daily life and a trip to Macao from a few weeks ago. Enjoy!
Weekend Trip to Macao
There is a strong Portuguese influence in Macao!
Daily Life
A nice soundtrack on our morning drive to work!
The local school often has all the kids dance these choreographed routines in the mornings!
We had a couple of stormy days where it would be practically dark in the middle of the day. This was around 11am!
I am so grateful to have Skype!
Here is a nice clear day, and a smoggy one below! I get so tired of the smog!
We made Oobleck in science and Chelsey snapped some pics for me.
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