Free Classes = tongue twisters

so if you see me with my hands in my mouth, it is not because i am nervous and i am biting my nails....I have to show the kids where to place their lip to produce the correct sound. Also, my new doesnt have me working on Saturdays so this makes it easier to pursue the sports ministry because then i can spend my saturdays doing basketball and soccer training. Wish me Luck!!!! I am so excited about my new ventures (character clubs and sports training).

Special Events and Character Education

Special Events this summer

Besides going to wenshan, I haven’t been able to travel much at all with some free classes that Odies decided to offer to kids. So there is a speech contest happening in Yunnan, and it might happen every year. I don’t really know. All I know is that it took over my Saturdays. So we had the pleasure of hosting the first round which it just seemed like we were teaching. So I had the pleasure of teaching tongue twisters. Now, Chinese already have trouble with pronunciation, and when we have to say it fast three times….it gets pretty funny. Oh, we were teaching kids ages I don’t know to I don’t know. So the lot of us were at the school on Saturdays 8:00am to 5:30ishpm which made for a long day especially since we were originally supposed to have our Saturdays off. It was fun and it went by really quickly because we were teaching 20 minute classes as opposed to one and half hour classes and there was no writing….it was all oral.
Camps:
So the organization did a week long summer character camp which was a great turn out. I however, was not able to attend all week because of other obligations. But it was a big success. There were over one hundred kids who came in for it. We had over 30 volunteers including the team from the States, Chinese, and other foreigners from all over china. It was a four day camp that lasted from 9:00ish in the morning til 5:00pm. I wish I could have been there for the entire camp.
My sports camp was cancelled mostly due to the fact that the school that I was going through didn’t really advertise at all. So I am pretty bummed about. I kind of got a feeling because there was one week left and I had heard nothing from them. I wanted to do just sports, but they wanted to expand into and English camp also, and I think that the scope just became too big plus they were really focused on the speech contest.

Character Education:
We have been in talks with the school about starting some trial character clubs as a part of their already established classes. This is a huge leap as we plan to start at the end of the month. So we are finalizing the curriculum and getting team members together. Getting excited!!!!!

Pictures from Wenshan