Halloween...Chinese Style!

It was a good week. Nothing really too exciting happened during the week, but the weekend was a different story!

So, the week was pretty typical. We celebrated Halloween in my classes by telling jokes and “trick-or-treating” in class while I played Halloween music like Thriller and The Monster Mash. The students seemed to have a good time. I even had a group of students in one class make a skit to perform in class, even though I didn’t ask for anyone to do that. The skit was hilarious. It was a mix of Little Red Riding Hood, Cinderella and Kung Fu Panda. Wow…I have some creative students.

Then on Friday night, Halloween, we (Meghan, Megan, Chris, Jimmy, Lotus and me) all met at my apartment and we hung out for a little bit. We then went to Ok Bar just to get out for a while. When we were at the bar, two foreigners, that happened to be American walked in. Their names were Romtin (Rom) and Adam. Rom was an orthodontis and Adam a plastic surgeon. They were here volunteering at the hospital doing some basic medical procedures for some under-privilleged Chinese Youth. They were really cool guys. We also met a couple of students from Matt’s school (although they don’t actually have Matt as a teacher). They knew a little bit of English and were very nice.

So, on Saturday I had some friends/students come over and we watched an American movie. They chose to watch The Interpreter. It was a good time. They then helped to translate things in our apartments that were in Chinese so we could stop being confused about them. We then got a text from Rom and Adam to meet up at the bar because they wanted to get out of their hotel. So, we went to the bar for a beer and to hang out. It is really nice having some other foreigners to hang out with, even though they are only here for one more week.

That’s about it for our Chinese Halloween weekend!

Hope all is well…