Students

I had my Monday afternoon class over at my place this afternoon. It was kind of to make up for the fact that I missed my Monday afternoon class because I was sick.

I bought OJ and Coke, cherry tomatoes and lots and lots of cookies. They drank the two bottles of OJ, a third of a bottle of Coke and 2 L of water, and a few cups of tea (my good Emperor's tea). There were twelve of them.

They arrived around 2 PM (most of them were a little late) and left at 4 PM. There was talk of making dinner for me at my place, but then it was said I still needed to rest and we would do it another day. It was difficult to have a conversation with all twelve people. It was mostly me talking with one of the students and maybe two or three people listening and then the others speaking amongst themselves in Chinese. I had six chairs brought in from surrounding apartments so that everybody could sit. It was a success!

Yesterday evening the whole French crew and Bob were over at my place. I was on MSN with a couple people, including one of my students, and I had Bob (Chinese friend) type in pinyin for me on MSN. My student couldn't believe it! I led them to believe it was me writing in Chinese! It was so funny. I told Bob to tell them to keep the fact that I know Chinese a secret. My poor students...