Ah, today was an eventful day...good, bad & ugly.

It started off for me like it has everyday for the last week...I overslept. I can't seem to have a night without crazy dreams these days. Arggghhhh! Anyways, I missed breakfast with my friend Dick, arrived at the office on time, then headed right out to supervise a test for Period 1. I was disappointed to catch someone cheating during the test. Grrr, I really don't like it when a student cheats! They don't seem to understand it's dishonest, and they really don't get that I'm really good at catching cheaters (I've had a lot of practice this year, lol) and they shouldn't even bother.

For Period 2 & 3, I took a class of students out into Tuanli for our Earth Day cleanup activity. I know, I know...Earth Day is April 22nd, not the 14th...but next week is so busy at school that our environmental science teacher organized it for today.

It was an interesting adventure cleaning up our community. We found some odd items, some gross items, and some pretty sad stuff too. I almost stuck myself with a syringe (yikes!), found a pair of pants covered in dried blood, and a tiny dead puppy :( I asked another teacher to help me put the little puppy in a garbage bag (I didn't want to just leave it there, I think it deserved a burial somewhere), but he just joked that "it probably has SARS or something". I was almost in tears by this time & that was a horrible joke!

So, I covered it with a couple of garbage bags & tried to pick it up myself, but when I felt it through the bag...I just couldn't do it. It was such a sad little thing. I placed four stones at the corners of the garbage bags, then surrounded it with the full bags from our cleanup to make sure the students stayed away.

After my return to the school I had to dash off again to do more test supervision for Period 4 & 5. I gave the students my little speech about the importance of honesty & what would happen if I caught them cheating (a big, fat zero from their teacher). And I wished them luck & hoped they did well. Then I collected all their little cheat sheets...heehee

Lunch went fast: eat, walk to the office, walk to the apartment, back to the office...then back to teaching.

This afternoon, a visitor came by to talk to my students about university and about why it's important for them to learn English. I was disappointed to find that my students didn't do their homework, grrr...and they didn't exactly treat our visitor well...ha, joke's on them, I'll just make them work harder next week!

Now, it's the weekend. But I still have too much work to do! lol... I have to prepare for my classes next week, and get ready for my latest assignment: lecturing at a university in Beijing on Mondays & Thursdays. Crazy!