I have now met my classes. They are of mixed size, from about forty-five to about eighty students in each. I have a mix of both non English majors and English majors.
The big difference, between the two classes, is that the non English majors only have me once a week and their classes tend to be larger. I, also, do not have the book that I am supposed to be using for them.
Today is a vacation day. The first week in October is a national holiday. It is really only a three day holiday so I did Thursday and Fridays classes both this last Thursday and Friday, and then again on Saturday and Sunday. This is the schools (and pretty much the rest of the countries) plan for turning a three day holiday into a week off.
Because it was a special session, we did material that was not in the book and I think they liked it. It was, primarily, another, "get them comfortable talking in class," exercise. We used the editorial cartons in the China Daily (the English news paper intended for Aliens to read) and broke up into groups. I then had them tell me what the artist drew. Then I had another person tell me what the message of the cartoon was.
We then took short news stories, there is a section that summarizes news stories from all around the country in short one or two paragraph stories, and gave each person one. They then summarized it. On some stories we did the, "is this a good thing?" That was then followed with why/why not.
I was planning to ride to Gushi with the local riding club. However, it started to rain so the plans have been canceled.
The puppy is sick; so, taking it to and from the vet is keeping Zeneta occupied. Today she is taking it to the Hospital for an x-ray. For this, she will have to put it in a box so that it is, pretty well, hidden until she gets to radiology.
I have decided that, when Zeneta gets back to The States, I am going to have her sell my motorcycle. I have been looking at a small bike to replace it with. The one I have is a 650cc and I am thinking of replacing it with a 250cc bike. Oddly enough, the smaller bike puts out slightly more power and gives significantly better fuel economy. It also sells new for about what I expect my current bike to sell, used, for. So, why didn't I get this bike in the first place? I think the style sort of put me off.
I have looked at these before. However,
