Jan. 8-10, 2015
The days passed at the normal pace, meter with running and work. However, today we got our final influx of new students. They were in Hong Kong and have finally arrived in Chengdu, I think they may be in for a surprise. Also today we got out schedules for the coming semester and the schedule for the trips. Spring semester isn’t like Fall, there are a lot less weekend day trips. I think that Spring semester there is more travel around China in general thus making it much harder to plan large group trips in advance. This is my theory anyway. Class was a lot of fun this Saturday, we played with leaves. The kids really like to run around before class and during break. Some tree leaves had fallen and were in piles, I started through leaves and then it just went nuts. They had a really fun time, I think Lily got some pictures for the class. Hopefully I will get to see them. Jesse and I popped up into the dorms to see the new people. Not too many running around, I think most of them were at dinner. We said our hellos to the people who were there. We’ll see them on Monday if nothing else. This break hasn’t been the most restful, but it was a lot of fun. Since break started I have moved, worked and covered many shifts, experienced Christmas and Western New Years, and all of it in China. I thick it is safe to say that life here is pretty good. Bring on the new semester and new USAC people!
Jan. 11, 2015
Open class went well for my older students. The parents seemed to really like it and they all signed their kids up for my Winter class, so that’s cool. I think the winter class is either going to be awesome or terrible. We’ll see how that develops. After I returned home Jesse and I made an attempt to find Wentao at one of the many Peter’s in the city. At first Jesse and I found the wrong campus of Sichuan University and were about 2 or 3 miles in the wrong direction. Then it became an adventure to find the place. We were never lost, as we always knew where we were in orientation to home, but it was like trying to find a needle in a haystack. We managed though and turned up surprisingly on time. New USAC people began arriving, it was fun meeting all of them, but I realized how odd we must have been sitting with the interns and Wentao. It was awesome though I met someone with whom I’d had classes with, Forrest. We had this moment of a running hug, that was pretty awesome. We then proceeded to walk her home and show her how to get to the University. I think this is going to be a fun semester.
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