Long Time no Post!

Sorry about the lack of posting for the last week- it has been very busy around here! Ok, so where to begin?

Last weekend was a great weekend for me. On Saturday we had house competitions at school which basically means we make all of the kids go out to the track and run around for two hours. Normally my house, Archimedes, is not a very competitive house; we got 8th place out of 8 teams last year. But this house competition our kids really kicked it into gear and we actually won the whole competition!

As you can see, the house teachers get really into it also :)

That night a lot of the staff went out to eat at our favorite Greek restaurant in town. Everyone came over after to our apartment which was fun to play host again (with less cooking this time!). Sunday was a normal lazy Sunday and then the madness of the week began again.

Monday brought all of the normal teaching and miscellaneous tasks as normal with one exception: I got to play badminton with my students after school. I hate to say it, but it was a very stereo-typical moment for me because I was playing hard-core badminton with my Asian students. I was so tired afterwords! But it was very fun and totally worth the lost prep time I normally have after school.

Wednesday brought more badminton because I was a referee for the badminton match at our school. Two other schools from a nearby city, Hsinchu, came to play our ICA badminton team. It was really fun to see the kids compete and for me to pretend to be a referee for a night!

Thursday was also an exciting day because the students were asked to pick their advisor for the year. It was fun watching all of them excitedly huddle over their paper with their friends to pick their teachers- it tends to be a very strategic process. I was told countless times that I was chosen as a "number 1" and thus am anxiously waiting to see what kids I get to sit with at lunch for the rest of the year!

And finally, it was the weekend again. My Saturday classes were good, I went to the jade market afterwards, and did a lot of sleeping; sounds pretty dorky but sometimes that's exactly what you need after a long week. So now I'm gearing up for another week and I promise to post more than just once a week from now on!