Sunday in the office

Its sunday, and we're both sitting in the office trying to get ready for monday, because we both have new classes. Christina is no longer teaching Business 10, but is going to tackle Math 10 instead. As for me, I'm no longer teaching Science 10 and Math/Science 9 because I have been officially named the CSL (Chinese as a Second Language) teacher. Yes, I will be teaching Mandarin 12 to a select group of students. I downloaded a few of the old provincial exams and I'm about to start writing them to see if I know all the characters and can answer the questions for the class that I'm about to begin teaching.... we'll let you know how these new classes pan out.

As for life apart from work, yesterday we took our bikes, along with a friend, who also works at the school, and rode over to the neighboring town of Tanggu. Our friend Keith, showed us some of the more popular places to visit in this town, a walking market, a vegetable market, a large 'everything' market, and Christina's favorite, the pet market. We had a lot of fun walking up and down the streets looking at all the different animals for sale. Lizards, snakes, fish, crickets, white frogs, kittens and of course cuddly little puppies. Christina fell in love with a large potato sized pooch with black hair and buggy little eyes. I was confident that if we ever bought a dog that small, it would most likely meet an unfortunate demise because of its miniature stature, namely being inadvertently squished by anything and everything.... in the end we walked away from the market with a new bathmat and no dog, however, i'm not sure if Christina is allowed to go back there on her own, or with her girlfriends. If that's the case then I may have to confiscate all forms of cash and credit from her wallet before she leaves the house.