Livin' the dream at school

We rarely get bored here even though we have so much time on our hands because we can't leave the schools grounds really, only on saturdays mainly, we find ourselves being really active. The school has kindergarten to high school aged kids here andso we hang out with the high school kids alot. The kids here are always playing basketball, volleyball, soccer, anything you can think of. They are always moving and playing, no wonder they are all twigs! If were not teaching then were on the court, or racing them down the track or playing volleyball, no joke when I say these boys got some game! It's not often that you will see a Chinese girl playing with the guys but they will sit and watch. They don't ever really interact either which is very interesting to watch. The first basketball game we played it was the Americans versus the Chinese and to be honest if it wasn't for Natty we probably would have been slaughtered! She schooled every one of those boys! One time we were playing defense and Natty was guarding the boy with the ball and tickled him! Since the guys and girls never touch i'm pretty sure she almost put the guy through a heart attack. Volleyball is also one of the main sports we like to play, if you're looking for a professional serve then pay attention to Brit, she has mad serving skills! She literally is all over the place! Lexxy can be more a distraction and let me explain why.. One time when she was serving the ball ( all eyes of her, keep in mind, even a couple dozen spectators) she had her fake hair in (the kind you just clip into your pony tail, convenient) and well she hit the ball so hard that upon inpact her hair flew about 5 feet away from her. Lexxy froze, face bright red. No one moved, no one did anything but stare at the lump of beautiful hair on the cement. Pretty sure even the boys on the basketball courts were staring at it. Brit and Natty finally busted up laughing and eased the tension from all the Chinese people watching. So much for long lucious hair for Lex. Other then sports we find ourselves running everyday for exercise and a girl in our group is a kickboxing teacher back home and she teaches us moves and combinations and also has us do exercise rotations of different body muscles every night. We also have fun activities such as 80's dance night where our whole group dressed up in 80's clothes and put on a dance in the dance room. We found costumes in the supply room that we used and some of our own too. We looked pretty good with the bright make up and fluffy bangs. Don't let our thugish clothes throw you off, were still teachers for life! The first two weeks of school we had government soldiers here, some of the students would train with them. They were given army suits and everyday all day long for two weeks they were out on the field doing marches and karate moves. Not all the kids were involved but most age ranged from 14 - 18. At the end of the training they put on a show for the whole school, it was also the Moon festival that day so there were moon cakes galor! After our little church session we went to watch them out of the field, it was cool because they were just kids and they had the march down perfect and the karate all together and they were all yellin cool Chinese things. Also a little weird because the kids were so young and yet being so disciplined! Every night they had these loud fireworks go off, first time they went off we thought it was thunder and went out side to check it out but when it wasn't raining all three of us booked it to where th noise was. Kinda stupid of us simply because it could have been our school under attack! Sounded like guns! For all we know they could have planned this whole teaching thing just so they can have us under thier control and hold us as hostage! anyways, after the marcing and karate they had kids line up and race to these blankets where they took forever folding them! Of course it was cool and perfect folding but still, what's the point of have a perfectly folded blanket? Just imagine it.. Hey mom, I'm going to go fight and kill.. No no Ling, not until you make your bed! Every saturday we go into the city to get whatever we need such as snacks or bathroom needs, water or just to get out of the school grounds. We take the school bus into town and then usually part with the rest of the group and explore by our selves. We often go to Dong fong square where all the food and action is, they have wedding dress modeling shows or water shows and clothes and purses of sale so we like walking around there, we do a whole lot of walking. Last week we got a little lost looking for the square and ended up in the middle of no where! Were told to never look lost because people might try to mug us or kidnap us so we just kept walkin, we found a lot of cool things. Since it was a little out of the busy city we saw real chinese markets and shacks. We also found this delicious pizza place called, "Jack's." We like to eat the dumplings here but today we were so hungry we thought why not. We walked in and were greeted by the most pleasent chinese face, they sat us down at this huge booth, it looked like a lounge! We sat on a couch more comfy then our own bed filled with big fluffy mickey mouse pillows. First we were brought out these gigantic menus and warm wash towls to wash our hands with and also a tissue box.. ? (who knows) They also brought out cold lime water and sprite in a can in budwiser glasses with a bendy straw :) We ordered garlic bread and a big meat pineapple pizza! No crumbs were left. For dessert we ate sherbert ice cream with watermelon on bottom. We relaxed for probably another hour because it was so comfey. Once again we felt like Queens. On the way home we folled a guy holding two real chickens like it was suppose to be normal.. haha probably not the last time we will see a guy in nice slacks and a coat jacket takin home the days catch.