This is it. The Belly of the Beast. Hero’s Journey allusions aside, we’re seriously at our host’s houses now. It’s not bad though, really. Our hosts really like forcing us to eat. Despite our cries of “chi bao le!” and “wo de duzi hen teng!”, we get more and more food shoved in our faces. As such, I have prepared a translation guide for anyone traveling to China to stay with a host family…
Yes = Half of whatever dish is being served.
No thank you, I’m full = A lot more
No = more
*running away* NOOOOO! = Just a little more
And if you really don’t want anymore, you’d better be prepared to fight to the death.
Anyways. After a bag of candy was stuffed in my pockets I was allowed to leave and we all met up at school. We took group pictures at the logo of the school and were joined by some student government officers and members of the radio club, all who spoke English. We first went to the robot room. Like our school, they have a science Olympiad like club which takes the robot challenges. Personally, I think Andrew Hillenius should robot battle them. We’ll see who wins, China. We’ll see…
Next we saw their dorms, which were extremely small. Also they have to take care of the small bunk beds that they have in military style … not fun. Next we went outside and met the gongfu instructors. The first man demonstrated to us the Chinese sword style, which was frickin’ awesome. Especially his flying somersaulting dropkick. Next another instructor came.. apparently he’s a national gongfu champion. He wanted to demonstrate too… on John. Lucky for John Kim leaped up to the rescue, otherwise our ice skater friend might not be with us now. It was a rough fight, but unfortunately Kim’s skills were no match for the instructor’s powers. Well, it wasn’t all that epic… he basically just tackled Kim as soon as she kicked him… (but I think Kim was just holding back. She didn’t want to unleash her mad skillz on him and ‘destroy him into small pieces’) Next we went to go play ping pong in the gym. Li Laoshi schooled them and Mr. Killmer used some Kendo style Japanese sword katas to defeat his opponents, but the rest of us got basically owned. We chose instead to go play Chinese hackey sack, which we are getting pretty good at by now. After that, our tour was basically over. We now went to the English classroom to introduce ourselves. After our introductions, we each got separated to go and meet with the students. After doing this for two classes, we could go off to lunch. When everyone got back, we attended classes. Some things: Chinese classrooms have really uncomfortable seats. Nasty stool things, bad bad bad. Also, I realized that there really was a way math could be harder for me, and that is that it could be in Chinese… Anyways, once the whole “we’re in a Chinese classroom” thing wore off, it was basically like normal class and we worked on our journals (or played tic tac toe). After school, we all went out to eat dinner together and are now at KTV (karaoke television). That’s about it for today. …yup.
~Colin
Yes = Half of whatever dish is being served.
No thank you, I’m full = A lot more
No = more
*running away* NOOOOO! = Just a little more
And if you really don’t want anymore, you’d better be prepared to fight to the death.
Anyways. After a bag of candy was stuffed in my pockets I was allowed to leave and we all met up at school. We took group pictures at the logo of the school and were joined by some student government officers and members of the radio club, all who spoke English. We first went to the robot room. Like our school, they have a science Olympiad like club which takes the robot challenges. Personally, I think Andrew Hillenius should robot battle them. We’ll see who wins, China. We’ll see…
Next we saw their dorms, which were extremely small. Also they have to take care of the small bunk beds that they have in military style … not fun. Next we went outside and met the gongfu instructors. The first man demonstrated to us the Chinese sword style, which was frickin’ awesome. Especially his flying somersaulting dropkick. Next another instructor came.. apparently he’s a national gongfu champion. He wanted to demonstrate too… on John. Lucky for John Kim leaped up to the rescue, otherwise our ice skater friend might not be with us now. It was a rough fight, but unfortunately Kim’s skills were no match for the instructor’s powers. Well, it wasn’t all that epic… he basically just tackled Kim as soon as she kicked him… (but I think Kim was just holding back. She didn’t want to unleash her mad skillz on him and ‘destroy him into small pieces’) Next we went to go play ping pong in the gym. Li Laoshi schooled them and Mr. Killmer used some Kendo style Japanese sword katas to defeat his opponents, but the rest of us got basically owned. We chose instead to go play Chinese hackey sack, which we are getting pretty good at by now. After that, our tour was basically over. We now went to the English classroom to introduce ourselves. After our introductions, we each got separated to go and meet with the students. After doing this for two classes, we could go off to lunch. When everyone got back, we attended classes. Some things: Chinese classrooms have really uncomfortable seats. Nasty stool things, bad bad bad. Also, I realized that there really was a way math could be harder for me, and that is that it could be in Chinese… Anyways, once the whole “we’re in a Chinese classroom” thing wore off, it was basically like normal class and we worked on our journals (or played tic tac toe). After school, we all went out to eat dinner together and are now at KTV (karaoke television). That’s about it for today. …yup.
~Colin
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Yo Karaoke is the thing!
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