a deer goes to deer school

Hello world. It is 6:43pm on Tuesday night and there is some sort of event going on in my compound, so I am hearing what I would interpret as Chinese opera music. I am also waiting on a grocery delivery (goodness, getting groceries delivered is genius!) because the guy brought me the wrong one. I am ordering from a place I've never ordered from before, a place called Epermarket. Well, the guy comes to my door and the box is pretty large and really heavy, but I didn't really think anything of it. Well, I open it. There are 6 liters of milk, a huge thing of carrots and mushrooms, tuna fish pizza, and 3 bags of frozen french fries. Um, yeah. Most definitely not mine. 

I got on the phone as fast as I could and the guy didn't answer. Dang! So I text him in English, which, in retrospect, is useless because the man doesn't speak English. Well, I call again and did my best in my frustrated (but not overly so) Chinese to explain that the food he brought wasn't mine. Well, most of it. They had the chicken drumsticks right. He comes back, takes the box back, and now it is 6:47pm and he brought me my actual order. Gotta say, I was impressed that it only took 4 minutes. But then again, I paid cash at the door, I expect to get what I pay for. 

That's been my evening thus far. 

Now, time for some funny first grade moments. 

Okay, I lied. Before first grade moment. Who the heck thought juicing a corn and putting into a bottle was a stellar idea? Seriously? Barf.

The assignment was to write 5 sentences about your parents. "My parents are goo. I am happy and my mom is happy. my dad is mad." 

Tales of modern life, when a child writes: "My mom like to play piano. My dad likes to look at his iphone."

This one made me laugh so hard! "Dad is like tiger. mom is like rabbit, because of her teeth. I like rabbit, I don't like tiger but I like my dad."

Having lived in Belfast, this one has a special place in my heart, a surprisingly good drawing of the "Tatanick".

This is a representation of me giving out candy to the good students. I am captioned as saying, "you are good today!", to which the student replies "yay!". What is funny, I've only given fruit snacks out once to my English class. They have to earn stamps.

Being Coloradan, this is priceless: "The deer is oging to deer school." Can I go?

This kid has very practical life goals: "I will go on a ship when I go to the North Pole." Shotgun!

Our grade one English stars from last week! The boy on the far right is in my class, Antonio. On Monday he came up to me and gave me 1 RMB. He tried to explain something about the holiday and it was completely adorable. He has made so much progress in the last two weeks! He's definitely one of my favorites. 

Now, it was required for us (the expat teachers) to decorate one door of the classroom. I got online and typed in "Halloween door decorations", to which there were some interesting responses. I stole this idea from Pinterest:

Let's be honest, it's a bit of a fail. I thought it looked a bit empty, so I added a rather potato-looking jack-o-lantern:

The sweet Chinese teacher from next door, Sophie, was taking my picture, so we decided to give in and take a selfie. Chinese people are the best at them, anyway.

And that's me for this week. Nothing too exciting has happened, unless you count the fact that I had an observed lesson this morning and I still haven't had any feedback. I'm waiting!