School Stuff

Quite a bit of crazy turmoil going on at the school. Story is quite long so I won't attempt to tell it all. I will tell you that it involves the Chinese local government, Chinese fire department, and the moving of all the interior walls in an entire school out 6 inches, 3 different schedules for teachers in one week, an brand new building meant for upper elementary but now used for a middle school, a brand new middle and high school now being used for an elementary school, and I'm sure several administrators who wishes things could be easier.

Nonetheless, Jamie and I are still teaching 12 year olds. We'll be in a brand new school building that was meant for elementary school students. The beam running down the middle of my classroom on the ceiling is about 6 inches above my head. I won't be doing jumping jacks. Still, brand new dell computers in a lab, brand new one for me, and excellent facilities.

I thought it was funny today when we went over the emergency plans. Regular stuff like what to do at school in case of a typhoon, civil unrest, earthquake. It did provide a whole new meaning to the term Chinese Fire Drill (ha, I crack myself up!).

Jamie and I are learning our new curriculum. We are a bit anxious to see how teaching reading and language arts will be. For those who do not know, Jamie has been a high school social studies teacher for 4 years. She will now teach 12 year old reading, language arts, earth science, and intensive English. We were told that we would need to be flexible when taking this job. She is definitely turned into a pretzel over this.

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