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Ok, vacation's over, and it was a nice one. Much needed. I'll write more on it sometime later, just don't feel like it now. I had to teach on Sunday, it felt weird. But I skipped out on the science and just talked about vacations and we played pictionary. They liked that.

Today I ate my lunch slowly and ended up being one of the last teachers in the lunch room. There are 2 cute little girls, I think they're 2nd graders, and one of them has a parent who is a teacher. or rather, I think she's a teacher's niece, so she eats in the teacher's lunchroom too. There are a few students who do this. anyway, she and her friend were eyeing me from near the door, looking nervously like they wanted to approach. So I smiled. And then they inched their way over and said Hello. I said hello! ni hao! how are you? and they replied shyly with the standard "I am fine thank you, and you?" and I said I was fine as well. Then I said ni jiao shenme and then what is your name? and they told me their english names and laughed. I don't remember what they were. Well, one was mandy, but I can't remember the little girl's who I always see. It was a 2-syllable name, both syllables the same. They were cute. and then they skittered off and said bye bye! Their english was quite good, Ｉwas impressed. but maybe that's all they know. no matter. it was cute.


Correction: they are 1st graders, the first one I used to see more is named Toto, and the other, Mandy, is the daughter of one of the computer teachers. They now come up to me often during lunch break, call me Jennifer, and try to teach me the chinese names of basic objects to be found on the body and in my office. Cute!