Teacher Ricky

My kids were completely terrible yesterday. I felt like it was the first day of school all over again. I think their regular teacher, Ms. Lu, found out that they were bad because when I picked them up today, she had a good few minutes chewing them out. And what do you know? They were angels today.

The past few days, we've been making turkeys out of coffee filters and paper. It's been so fun, I can't wait to post pictures. The coffee filter is the turkey tail, and you tie-dye it with washable markers and water. The more messy something is, the more they love it. They turned out really well! I have Pinterest to thank for that one.

Today we finished the turkeys. Ricky was in one of his hilarious moods and he just decided to take over class. The kids were being a little chatty so he stands up and says "Listen to Teacha Ricky!" Everyone goes quiet as he folds his arms and starts listing off who is being good and who is not being good. I was hanging up the turkeys on the wall so he was designating whoever was being good to come hand me their turkey. If they started talking again or did something he didn't like, he would yell "ATTENTION! Listen to Teacha Ricky!" I thought to myself that it was kind of nice to have a warden and I wondered why he didn't do this yesterday when they were being hellions. Oh, that's right, he was the one causing all the problems yesterday...

And then, on the way back to their regular class, he breaks out in Gangnam style- both the song and the dance. If you've never heard a seven-year-old belting out the words "Heyyyyyyy sexayyy ladayyy" in a super thick Chinese accent, you're missing out on life.

On a more depressing note, I'm fairly positive that I'm getting sick. I feel the sickness creeping in on me. I'm achy, with chills and a combination head/earache. Lovely. I can't say I'm surprised. I did go to Beijing and Shanghai, two of the biggest cities in the world, in the same week. Would I take it back? Not a chance.

I'd say that tonight I'm going to savor my tomato soup and apple cider and be thankful that I don't teach ELE in the morning. Over the weekend, I finished the vast majority of my shopping. There's only a few small things that I'd like to get before I leave.