Week 2: Done

So... Blogspot went back to not working again. Oh well, it was nice while it lasted.

More rain today. When the students do laundry, they dry their clothes on racks in the courtyard. One lonely t-shirt has been hanging outside for two days.

There were four students at the first English Corner today. We started by playing "Two Truths and a Lie," which they more or less understood. I asked them to write down topics they want to talk about, which were mostly music, movies, sports, the Olympics and "singing songs of Backstreet Boys." We got to talking about pets, so I showed them pictures of Tiki and video of Maura's dog Rocky (the one I took at Kate's the first day). They thought Tiki was cute (naturally) but old, while they said Rocky seemed naughty. They all want to visit America and were very curious about it, so I drew a terrible map. I pointed out L.A., D.C., New York, etc. but this one girl's dream vacation is to go to Long Island, because that's where her last English teacher was from.

China Fun Fact: More than half the population in China lives without sewage treatment, including 278 cities -- eight of which have more than 500,000 people.