Teaching the kids part deux

So today we began our second round of teaching a whole new set of kids English. I got to start the day by myself. I would like to say it was because I lost a game of rock paper scissors, but I actually volunteered for it. The first hour was kinda scary...lots of blank stares at me while i nervously tried to think of what to teach them and keep the class interesting at the same time. Once again Bingo has saved the day...the kids love the game. We taught them all about colors, clothes, families, numbers, time, sang the A,B,Cs and plenty more...

I forgot to mention we went and saw Transformers the other night...Michael Bay you have vastly surprised me. That movie was awesome! and what really made it great was that we got to see it in a Chinese movie theater, (in english with chinese subtitles) and we were the only Americans in the room. So at every little joke we were bursting out laughing and im pretty sure we were the only ones who got the jokes. haha. That and Diogo absolutely lost it every time someone gets blown up in the film.

So ya, tomorrow we have some more awesome classes to teach and no doubt, hundreds of awkward silences and stares throughout the lesson. The kids are in fact very smart and seem to be picking up on what we teach them very quickly, however they are all very shy and for that reason they dont speak up much...we're working on that...
for example, if the kids dont speak up and volunteer to answer a question, Pat hits me with a water bottle. I dont care too much for the technique for obvious reasons, but it is surprisingly effective.