Sammy

Last night I had a strange dream. That I was fighting for food with pigs. Finally I was win that my stomach was full like a balloon. Then I received the Christmas gift from my mom. I opened it that only jiaozi appeared. How happy I was as if I got the free meat on airplane. Oh, suddenly I realized it couldn’t be found by Sonny because he would eat them all. Luckily, he was playing soccer ball on the garden yard. So I watched the DVD called “Walk the Line” as eating jiaozi happily.

Ann

Last night I had a strange dream. Many pigs are flying in the sky with wings. One of them has no wings, but it holds a balloon. “Christmas Pig”, someone shouted. And another voice “I want to eat jiaozi!” Suddenly, a huge airplane is nearer and nearer. Sonny is waving his hand in the airplane and in his other hand, there is a soccer ball of strange shape. Sonny smiled to the pigs and said proudly, “Do you have a DVD? I have one.”

Larry

Last night I had a strange dream. In my dream a lovely little pig broke into my house. Then it saw a balloon on the ground and began to blow it. After that, it made a face and surprisingly began to talk, “Merry Christmas!” I was terrified and said trembling, “What do you want?” and it said, “Jiaozi.” I gave it and I got out a remote-control airplane and said, “You may take a seat in it.” But suddenly Sonny appeared falling down from the ceiling and crying, “Help!” I throw a very big soccer ball that he can make it underneath himself so that not to be hurt. The lovely little pig took a look at Sonny and got a DVD out of Sonny’s pocket and said, “I’m here to give you a present, and the present taken by my friend Sonny. The present is this DVD ‘Welcome to Disneyland!’”

Trina

Last night I had a strange dream. There were many pigs in the forest. One of the pigs became a balloon and flied straight to the sky. Now I guess maybe I look forward to Christmas, so I always think I can fly to it because I was born in pig year. On Christmas Day my mother promise to do jiaozi for me. Let me go on describing my dream. Then I saw an airplane. We began to compete in the sky. Then I saw God. He was so lovely and his look was very like Sonny. I suddenly saw Sonny throw a soccer ball to me, just the moment, it became a DVD. At that time, I know it was a magic soccer ball.

This weekend was very significant since it was Easter. It marks the 26^th year that I have lived since I accepted Jesus Christ into my life. I have, and never will be, the same.

During the weekend, there was a lot of activity. On Saturday (thanks to my mom & step-mom’s egg dye kits and Ruth’s trip for white eggs – only geese have white eggs here in Siping) I was able to spearhead a morning of fun for students. Ruth and Sarah’s Junior joined my three Freshmen Oral classes for egg dying, egg tossing, and egg hunting. I had a gold and silver egg that was worth special prizes when found. It was waaaay fun seeing them so excited at dying eggs which they had never done. The egg tossing was great since some just “chucked” their egg at their partner. I really thought someone was going to get pegged in the face but no dice. And, of course, the day wasn’t complete until there was an egg hunt. They about mowed me down when I shouted “Go!” before they went into the park where the Wu’s, the Norrie’s, Seth & Steph would hide the eggs.

After this we all went to the orphanage to repeat the “chaos” again. It was more low-key though since there were only with eight kids old enough to dye. My mom had sent me a “chocolate bunny” (not the kind you eat but one that actually smelled like chocolate – amazing). The “chocolate bunny” was the gold egg prize.

We also had fellow teachers from Changchun come visit us. With them Rachel and Jeweliann organized an Easter dinner. I made “angeled eggs” (right mom?) and mac & cheese. A good time was had by all.

See the album “Student Easter Fun” for pictures of my students and the album “Orphanage Easter Fun” for pictures of the kids.

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This week was a rough week. I had a lot of grading and was very busy. I hadn’t updated all week! Anyway, here’s some stuff that went down:

1)       My computer screen has gone black. The LCD light doesn’t come on, so I can’t see the screen. Thank goodness I can connect to external monitors (like a TV) or I’d be stuck. Yikes! So I’m working on getting warranty help and tech support. No real biggie, right?

2)       My Junior students had a journal topic which was finishing famous English proverbs. I’ve created a list for you (and my students) to read the funniest and most clever entries.

3)       I just woke up at 6 AM China time. Last night, I went to bed <drumroll, please> at 5 PM. I just slept 13 hours. Wow! I haven’t done that since like 10 years ago. I guess I was like disastrously tired or something. But, hey, I feel really great now!

4)       I got confirmation yesterday on my summer schedule. See my “Schedule” list on the right side of my blog for more info.

Peace out!

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Many times words in English are somewhat distorted when they’re “transliterated” into Chinese. McDonald’s and Madonna is one such combo. Madonna in Chinese is Mài dāng nà (麦当娜). McDonald’s in Chinese is Mài dāng láo (麦当劳). There is a joke in China that Madonna likes McDonald’s (not as in the food liking, but as in they’re dating). Now that’s funny!

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