Chinese Class
Posted on Thursday, August 7th, 2008 at 2:14 pmI finished teaching the Chinese students this week. It was a fun experience. It was completely different than I expected. I’ve heard that their schools are so strict and so we expected them to be perfectly behaved….teenagers are the same in any country I guess! 
I have to share a few of their funny comments.
They asked what time we go to bed, and we we told them about 10:30 or 11:00, they said, we go to bed much later, that is why Americans are so tall. They get a lot of sleep!
When tasting pudding, they commented that it was really gross. They said that it tasted like snot. When one of the American teenagers said, I like it. They responded, do you like snot?
The day before they left, we had a farewell party. All the students brought their host families. It was really fun. We had a talent show, and only three groups signed up, but then all of a sudden everyone wanted to get up. The talent show reminded me of American Idol auditions! Most of the students got up and sang without any music, and as a result were slightly (okay really) off key. One student got up and started singing, he paused for a moment and we all clapped thinking he was finished. He said, “No this song 7 minutes!” Yikes….and he sang all 7 minutes of the song (4 pages of lyrics). After that he called his friends to come up and sing with him. We were afraid they were going to sing for another 7 minutes, but luckily they sang another song. So it was an entertaining, but LONG talent show! I’ve included a small clip of the show, just to give you an idea of the Chinese students singing! It’s not as clear as I’d like, but hopefully you get the idea!
After that, we presented them with certificates and they said something to their host families. It was sweet to see how much they loved their host families. A lot of them cried, except for the boys that said, “We are men, men do not cry, but we will miss our host families.”
I will admit, I’m glad it’s over, because it was a lot of work, but it’s been fun to learn a lot about another culture!
what a great experience! I had fun teaching the Koreans english when on my mission.
What a cool experience, thanks for sharing! I love the talent show idea, that’s great!