Ming Tomb, More First Day Jitters, and Breakfast for Dinner!

So with our first and only day off in 10 days, we decided to check out some of the Ming Tombs as they were pretty much the last possible tourist attraction for us to go see in Beijing. They actually were pretty cool, maybe slightly underwhelming but all in all a pretty sweet thing to go see. We spent the day with one of the Chinese teachers and her husband. I think she was good intentioned, but she drove all of us nuts! We felt like babies when we were with her and she was genuinely shocked every time we did something on our own. Also we were supposed to learn Kung Fu that night but it fell threw, so our one day off was a little less cool.

Then the next day we began our first day with the second group of kids from Shunyi No. 1 Middle School's Grade 6 class. The kids were a year younger than the group of kids we had previously finished teaching and thus knew slightly less english and were slightly more shy and nervous the first few days. So needless to day my warm-up group activity went to shambles because everyone was too scared to participate and they were to shy to answer any of my questions, so I was struggling. Things did fortunately get a lot better over the next few days. As I started introducing American games and making the lessons more interesting the kids started participating a lot more and became less and less shy so that was nice.

Classes continue to get better, and after about the 4th day we had dinner at Hilary (our boss)'s house, it was really good! Home cooked Chinese food is the best. She showed us how to make caramelized potatoes and some other things.

Then 2 days later, had dinner at Rick's house again...his family is awesome! they invited us over and surprised us with a breakfast for dinner night! This couldn't have been more amazing considering we've been craving normal breakfasts the entire trip...Chinese breakfast just isn't the same... So ya, dinner was amazing, we even got to play some Xbox 360 at their house against one of the owners of the company, Caterpillar

China continues to be awesome...more to come soon!