Mate Fair

My friend Mackey took this of Wenzhou after a storm last week.

It's officially spring now, so yay to that!

A few weekends I went to the city of Hangzhou, about a 4 hour drive away. I went to go see the Hangzhou Greentown Dragons play some good ole fashioned football.

I had a lot of fun! And one of the best parts was they would do the chant where you go 

"duh duh duhduhduh duhduhduhduh Let's go!"

Only they said "JAI OH!" Which is the Chinese equivalent. I thought that was funny.

When I heard them chant it the first time I was excited.

After that fun weekend it was back to class. And last week we played Jeopardy again and I made the questions a lot harder than the first time we played. I thoroughly enjoyed stumping them.

I liked the trickery with this question.
They had to see the Miami on the court, and then figure out what state.

This one got every class. No one knew. It's a play on words.
So the man sleeps at NIGHT.

This was their faces.

About the half the teams that got this question knew where it was.

And this week for April Fool's I made a word search with no actual words in it.

I told them that the first person to find one of the words
would get a huge prize.
I had trouble not cracking a giggle.

The mall down the road had some good stuff going on, including a Date/Mate Fair!

These things were around the mall and they all had profiles taped to them.

These profiles had height, weight, job, salary, blood type, basically everything we in America don't reveal to anyone until we're like married.

This is totally not ridiculous or anything.

When I saw this my inner hermit came out.

 I could never. Never. Thank God for being not a Chinese twenty-something.

But what I did find at the mall was a huge sticker of Korean soap opera star, Lee Min Ho, who is pretty attractive. My girl students and I love to talk about his handsomeness.

He's super famous here. I did a whole lesson on his last soap opera. I made the kids tell me every character and the plot to the show, The Heirs.

It's as wonderfully stupid and cheesy and terrible as it looks. 

But those are the types of things these Chinese teenagers love.

And finally, this week I received my postcard from one of my favorite students, Pepper Potts :)
She sent it over the Spring Holiday but I finally got it!

So not too much going on in the eastern hemisphere. But I did find this awesome gif, which I leave with you now.

Seriously. How can you watch this and not laugh hysterically.