Teacher's Day!

So yesterday was teacher's day, which means that you get cards from students, flowers from the school (not really big flowers) and Lindt's chocolate from parents, which happens to be the most amazing chocolate I have ever had in my entire life.

Classes were ok this week. Apparently I'm having trouble controlling my classes and teachers have complained to the principal who has told the person who placed me in the school who then told me and if it continues to be a problem they're going to find someone else to teach instead of me. I think yesterday was a lot better though. We finally got this reward system set up so that when kids do things or are good they get fake money and can buy things with them once a week, they really liked that idea and were pretty good yesterday.

Sooooo since Kristina wants to know, the title of my last blog was referring to when Dan and I were at a super market and we were looking for dried fruit and I was in dried fruit mode trying to find something cheap and I saw dried grapes (that's what the package said:
Julie: Look! Dried grapes!
Dan: Those are raisins.
Julie: No, they're dried...oh...

Yes, so that's the story.

I'm really enjoying the other teacher's at my school. Two of them are from England and one is from the States, so not only do we have to get used to the Chinese culture, but we have to get used to each other and how we have completely different names for things, like this for example:

Julie: Do you guys have any band-aids?
Claire: No
Dave: A what?
Claire: She means a plaster (same word as what you call wall plaster)

It just makes me laugh. Tomorrow (Sunday) I'm going to do some editing work or something, I'm not completely sure. They said something about reading a book. Hopefully it won't be too boring.

There was more I wanted to say, but I can't remember what it was. I feel like I'm learning a lot about things, life in general. It's been fun, very tiring, but fun.