Many of the students over here do not have an English name, so it has become me and Lisa's habit of selecting names for our students. There is a Chinese teacher over here who purposely gave many of his students CRAZY names such as the one in this title! Don't get me wrong, he is a great teacher and very funny. He spent a little bit of time in England and became pretty westernized. He is known as the movie king. If we ever need any movies, we can just go and see him.
Speaking of movies though, it has been somewhat hard for us because movies are very easy to come by over here, but they are illegally downloaded and made. We don't want to support pirating. So far, we have been watching the available Harry Potter's that one of our friends has over here. I have seen the 'Dark Knight' on DVD over here, but I haven't been able to watch it yet still! An Irish friend that we met here (but was leaving to go back to Ireland as we came in) had it, but I wasn't able to watch it in time. So we are having our family send us some over to watch over here in our downtime.
I had a student who was named Leave and she finally just today selected a name that I offered to her. We are now in week 8. I met her in week 4! Ha-ha. I thought that Christina fit her well, but she didn't like that, along with a whole barrage of other names that I offered to her. I gave her and the rest of the class a list of 100 popular boys names, as well as 100 popular girls names along with their meaning. None were suitable!
It is funny also the change in both Lisa and I now that we have named several students. I feel a lot of weight and responsibility when I name someone because of how important a name is. But trust me, after having entire classes of: (iceman, killer, pencil, flower, pumpkin(who still hasn't changed her name yet!), big pie, kobe(all of the boys want kobe or michael or jordan) sweet, and just weird names that they hear in a movie and try to translate into English.
I have been asked to teach two more classes also since one of the teachers from Ireland has not arrived here yet. Today was my first day of that, but I had a lot of fun. In the first class, their English is pretty good, so we did a murder mystery that I bought off of the internet. It is hilarious, with a bunch of twists in the story. In the end, all of the party members are arrested by the police for various crimes that they have committed anyways, so they are really thrown off guard with that.
In the other class, I had to prepare them for Role plays that they will have to perform in six weeks. That should be good. Most of them should be prepared for that. I also introduced them to what Halloween was. We may play some Halloween games such as bobbing for apples and such.
The weather here is still very, very nice. The locals have been surprised that it is still this warm this late in the year. Of course, Lisa and I don't mind at all. A shorter winter will be nice after we have heard how cold it gets. We thought that since this is somewhat Southern China, it won't be a problem, but I guess not. While the temperature isn't really below freezing, it is a real wet cold. And you can't escape it because the buildings do not have heat in them. Our apartment has one heating unit and a small portable one, but that is it. There is not central air.
We met a girl hear from Minnesota/Wisconsin who said last year she slept with hot water bottles in her bed to keep her warm! So that is saying something. Just a damp, wet cold. We will see. :) Trying to build a lot of relationships now as people may soon be indoors more and not outside as much. Love, -Shane and Lisa
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