Mar. 6-7, 2015
Thank goodness that Friday was a
pretty relaxed. I did have some tutoring to do, but it was pretty easy.
The new girl I am tutoring is Sophia, a sweet little child who speaks
pretty good English. We read together and then play games at the end.
Overall a good class. Saturday was early as we were on an official USAC
field trip. We arrived at the 金沙 (jinsha) museum around 9:45, it took a
while to get out there on a bus. We probably could have walked to the
metro stop and it would have gone faster. The museum was pretty
interesting. I don’t know if you remember but last semester USAC took us
to 三星堆(SanXingDui) Museum which is an pre-writing society that left a
surprising amount of artifacts. This is due to the ritual sacrifices that occurred near the ancient river bed, they often threw gold, jade and horns into the river, or buried things near the river. Jisha is a continuation of that society
after they left from Sanxingdui. Some of the relics look similar to that
of the older site, but they have matured and there is evidence of
writing (oracle bones). We had an English speaking guide to take us
through the museum which helped with generally understand what I was
looking at. In the end we saw a bunch of 3500 plus year old artifacts.
Some of the pictures are going to be blurry due to the lighting. After
the museum it was essentially work time, so Jesse and I headed out for
work. It was alright, review days are always really strange for the
kids, because they know they’ve done whatever we are doing before. So
even if they don;t remember they become disinterested quickly. We limped
through, I really hope that once we start the new book things pick up.
Here’s to hoping.
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| Original site of Jinsha discovery |
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| Elephant Tusk petrified in the river. |
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| Most intact Gold Mask found in China |
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| One of the National Historical Symbols of China |
Mar. 8-9, 2015
Sunday started with work. Usually these kids are super difficult but this time everything went really smoothy. Alina has joined a higher level class, thus I no longer have her ring leading the other girls into verbally bullying the boys. They had fun with counting and doing different tasks a bunch of time. Then it was back home for homework and a lot of cooking. Since the rest of the day was off I made lunch and dinner, the left overs will last us into the next two days which are always insane. Monday was in fact pretty crazy. My sleep schedule somehow got really messed up again. So I’ve been extremely tired. Class in the morning was manageable but then I had class again from 2:30 to 5:30. HSK is good for learning how to take the test, but my brain was all but melted. I take notes though a good portion of this class is essentially practicing taking the test. That makes things easier as it’s receptive tasks, I didn’t have to think to much. At one point Laoshi laughed lightly at me due to the completely dead look on my face. I have hopes and dreams that I will be able to sleep well tonight. Tuesday is six hours of class and work. Here we go into tomorrow!
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