The KIDS

This is the middle group, the "favored" ones :)

Playing "red light, green light"

Me and some kids playing "duck duck goose"

Emily, Me, Mee Mee, and Sarah

Of late, not much has been going on here. Were in the last week of summer camp, the humidity is unreal. Even when your just sitting down with the kids, you can feel the drips of sweat running down your back and face. Haha gross image right? But its how it is, no avoiding the truth! The one and only thing that keeps me sain in this kind of heat is the kids. They are so fun and such a joy to be around. They can always put a smile on my face and get me laughing in no time. Depending on the day, I either have the babies (1-3 graders), the middle group (4-6 graders), or on the worst days, the middle schoolers. (7-9 graders). Why i say worst day is because the middle school kids don’t have a care in the world for us or what we are trying to teach them. We all say that they are "to cool for school". There are a couple students from that group who do care and take the time to talk to us and try to better their English. The middle groups, the 4th through 6th grade kids are my favorite, they are at that age where they can be taught easily and love the games we teach them. The babies are fun but very hard to control, but they are the cutest things ever. They grab your hand like you are their best friend and lead you on some sort of an adventure. There is this little girl, not in any of the groups we teach, but her mom is a Chinese teacher at the school so she comes and hangs around with us. She is the cutest thing and loves us all a lot. She grabs are hands and chatters in Chinese as she leads us around the school. We named her Mee Mee and she loves it! All of the parents with little kids always wants their kids to touch us, so they will walk up to us and make their little kids give us high fives, its way funny and it happens at least once a day. We took our kids to this "park", which was quite beautiful. As you keep walking through the middle of the forest on this path, it leads to this amusement park, if you are from Utah, it is like a mini, creepy version of Lagoon. except you don’t pay at the front, you pay for each individual ride you want to go on. I went on the bumper cars because one of my students refused to go without me. Then we did the screamer, the one like at Lagoon where you start going around and around and the machine starts going straight up so you are doing back flips kinda. Anyways i got dragged on that one also but loved it so much i did it again. haha. The kids really do care for you and try and teach you all they know in Chinese, like how to count to ten, or simple words like T-shirt, or water. I can’t wait for the real semester to begin and have my own class to teach and also learn so much from.