military training

for 5th and 6th graders! goodness! Today I didn't have to teach because I only have 5th and 6th graders on fridays, and today they're on an "outing" for "soldier training". Crazy. I don't really know much about it, as no one can explain it to me especially clearly. But the older kids all got on a bus this morning to go somewhere to practice their discipline and marching skills. Which they learn in school too, but still. It's weird. The kids don't seem to know too much about the specifics either, they're supposed to find out about it themselves. Their teachers went along with them but since I have chinese class in the afternoons, I didn't go with them. I don't know if they would've had me go with them if I didn't have class though. Many of the kids I talked to are looking forward to it. I guess it's supposed to be fun, which is the way to go for the chinese military. get the kids into it while they're young. But anyway, that's why I got to sleep in today.