STAND UP! - Status update

OK I never understood "prom-posals" until now, at the ripe old age of 36. Groups of students are taking each of us teachers out on Sunday to explore Ningbo. Each group of kids worked hard on their invitations and by lunch, almost everyone had an invite...but me. I sat at my lunch table, cringing under the visible pity of two other American teachers and one Chinese teacher. I even got the, "Oh... you'll get one... I'm sure." It smarted, I tell ya!

 After lunch we have a brief  25-minute period where our advisory kids do either free talk or silent sustained reading and today was a reading day for me. About 5 minutes before the end of class, one kid yelled, "Stand up!" and everyone in the room stood and asked, together, "Will you go on our trip?"

I felt like Miss Damn America. Even better? Everyone else knows where they're going but mine is a surprise!

Status Update - Scavenger Hunt

If someone had sent me on a scavenger hunt yesterday with only three items
(an old lady, a rain poncho, and a Vespa), I'd have completed it in one fell swoop, 
within 25 seconds of arriving in Shanghai.