And Now's About the Time When the Cute Title Stop

I forgot to write yesterday about something that happened in the afternoon class. Kaylene had the kids play tag at the end of the lesson. One of the little 3 year olds got clothes lined. Two kids were running to the right with their arms out, and Meggy was running left and ran right into their out stretched arms. She went down and I heard her head hit the tile. I ran over to pick her up so that I could comfort her before she had a chance to cry. But, she just looked up at me, smiled, jumped up, and started running. She didn't make it very far before she realized the fall hurt pretty bad. She turned to find me, and when she saw me, she just started balling I ran over to her and picked her up. She just kept crying and crying and by the end of class I had the biggest tear/snot spot on my shirt. So, it was really sad that she fell and hurt her head, but I liked that I could be the one to comfort her. Because, the little kids are so cute, but I'm not really supposed to cuddle them because then they'll all want to be held all of the time. But, I wasn't teaching yesterday, and there's no way I was just going to ignore the fact that she slammed her head on the ground, so I got to be the comforting cuddle she needed.

And today... Uh, I went running, I taught a couple lessons, and they went pretty well. I hooked up my computer to the TV screen so for the first two lessons I used that. One was an online game and the other one was just pictures on a powerpoint. So, the lesson could have gone better, because I didn't really capture their attention like I'd hoped it would, but it was better then me just talking to them and drawing lame pictures on the whiteboard. My afternoon lesson went pretty well too. I talked about pilots and we made paper airplanes. Most of the kids projects turn into airplanes anyways, so at least this time the paper I gave them was meant to be thrown around the room. And, I had made three examples, and I hate to waste paper, so I probably would have kept them in my room hoping to use them some day, but luckily one kid came up and asked me for one, and I gave it to her. Then, the two other kids who were right there wanted the other two. Sweet! No clutter for me- well, I already have clutter, so it's not like there's no clutter for me, but it's more like "no extra clutter for me."

At lunch today we went to volunteer at Tzi Chi. It's kind of awkward to go there. Director Tsai keeps on having us talk about BYU and Provo and stuff, and she'll ask us questions and have each of us (Nancy, Luke, Kaylene, and I) answer the same question, and she'll try to have the students ask us questions, but the students are terrified to speak English. So, she always ends the meeting by saying, "oh, maybe next time they will have more questions to ask as they have time to think about it in the week." And every week they are still quiet. But today was funny because Nancy ended up having to give a presentation on the AIMS of BYU, even though there was absolutely no warning. When we got there Director Tsai said, "oh, we were going to pull up the Tzi Chi website and talk about our school, but the link isn't working. So, instead, I pulled up the BYU website, Nancy, would you like to show us something about BYU from the internet?" It was kind of funny, but I was quiet during the conversation because the students don't know that much English and I didn't know how to simplify what everyone else was saying. So there was a lot of repetition today.

After school today I had tutoring, and this one was not as good as yesterday's but it was hard because I tried to do small activities to get them moving, but they weren't good at it. They couldn't move and pay attention at the same time, and so we just had to stop. I mean, the parents aren't paying me to play with their kids, they're paying me to teach them. Oh, but speaking of playing with the kids, there is this one girl I tutor that comes in on Thursdays randomly just to sit in because she's waiting for her mom to pick her up. It's funny though because in tutor session she's a total brat who cops attitude the whole time, but today when she came into class she came in and was sitting on my lap and was trying to be helpful when I wanted something written or erased on the board. Weird little kid, why can't she be sweet on whatever day it is that I tutor her.

When tutoring was through Nancy and I rode to the train station to pick up our tickets for Taipei. Yuling ordered them online for us because she gets a Chinese discount, but then we had to go and pick them up (our trip is next weekend). And, on our way back we decided to stop off somewhere new. We pulled off the road to this chicken place. It was pretty good, but it was funny because we ordered and then sat down and the lady brought us over drinks (drinks usually come free with the meal, but you'll know why if you keep reading) and set them on the edge of the table. We said "Xie, Xie (Thank you)" but didn't touch them because it was tea. But, it was really sad because I got really thirsty during dinner and kept on wanting to reach over and grab my drink, but then I would remember it was tea and I would just have to be thirsty. We then decided to get some ice cream that was also along that road. The sign had legitimate ice cream on it, none of that shaved ice with beans and dumpling crap. Well, actually the sign did have the ice crap on it too, but I saw the legitimate ice cream. The ice cream was really good, and I got milk and mango flavors, and it tasted like it might have been frozen yogurt and not ice cream at all, which would be better because it's a little healthier, right? But the sad thing is that they were tiny tiny scoops for not a tiny tiny price. Sad day, but, it's not like it was break the bank expensive, so I'll live.