Yesterday was quite warm and very humid, which made it quite uncomfortable. (I will never understand, tho', how so many people feel the need to wear long sleeves and jackets.) Today is much better, not as humid, but still warm.
We picked up our tickets for Shanghai yesterday. Our family is coming over in two weeks and we'll be meeting them there and all of us coming back to GZ after a few days.
Last night's class went well. More students than last week, including a new student. We went through lessons 3-6. I tried playing the mp3's that I downloaded from "ESL Gold" on my computer, but it wasn't loud enough and we couldn't get the classroom sound system to work. Students asked to go over long, hard-to-pronounce words more thoroughly, like "photographer" and “secretary". The "ch" in "mechanic", "cherry", and "machine" threw them a bit --- my only explanation to this: "It's English". We took 5-10 minute breaks every hour....good thing, since my voice gets hoarse fast. Fortunately, a student was gracious enough to fetch me water. We played Hangman again, but this time on my computer. It was a little tough, since the categories were limited, and countries was about the only thing we could do. Maybe we'll try bingo next week.
The university has given us a room on the main campus for the nights that I teach and (if we call ahead) any other nights that there might be events on the main campus (i.e. Jazz Concerts, etc.) since there is no shuttle after 5:30 p.m. So, we stayed here last night.
This morning, L. did some laundry (they have a dryer here, very exciting for her) and I taught piano to the boys (M and S) of the other JHF family here.
We went to the library later to read some mags. They had "U.S. News and World Report" as well as "Time" magazine on their shelves. It's probably the only place in Guangzhou that carries them. It was nice to be able to read them.
