As you are all aware if you are my friends, today is my birthday. What you may not know, is that it was also my first day teaching a class by myself. It was definitely a learning experience, but overall it went really well! My students are great, about 15 12-16 year olds, and they are amazing and fun.
(as an aside, as I am writing this, there are fireworks going off outside our complex, and I can see them! Not at all unusual for China, but AWESOME for my birthday! I'll just pretend they are for me :))
Anyways, model school. I had a peer observe my class today and give me some great feedback, so that was really helpful :) Overall, I think that with experience, I can really do a great job teaching English in China.
My friends bought me lunch today, and after my class, some other friends bought me a beer. My PCT friends are great, and I love them all! I feel fortunate to be among such a talented and wonderful team of human beings. Speaking of feeling lucky, last night in my journal, I made a list of things that are frustrating about China, and things that I am thankful for. While the frustrations made a longer list, they were much more petty and much less important than the things that made my "thankful for" list. Peace Corps China is not the typical "Peace Corps" experience, but there is still so much to learn and teach here. It is really taking some time to adjust to these differences, but overall, my petty gripes are not really big deals in the grand scheme of things. So I am truly grateful :)
so what were the gripes - dollar bill kelvin
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