One Month Down...

Hi readers...

I have been in China for a good month now and I think I might just be getting used to the culture here. A lot of things happened this week. 

1. I got a Chinese name!!! My Chinese name is Li Aisi, which means "thinking of love!" I have always wanted a Chinese name since I found out that a lot of Chinese people have English ones! 

2. Today is the Mid-Autumn Festival, a classic Chinese holiday and people are off for two days. :D My friends and I are taking this time to be tourists. We might go to the zoo to see pandas or go to the top of the Pearl Tower. Around this time, people eat these mooncakes, which are these pastries filled with red bean paste or egg or fruit. I have tried them and I think they are just ok. Red bean paste is not my favorite. 

3. I got a job at a school! I now teach 2nd graders at Da Hushan First Primary School! It is a really nice school, the "model" school for the area. I have about 25 students in each class. Right now I will be teaching 2 classes at this school per week. I have to pick up stickers this week for my students (They love stickers here! Especially cute panda stickers). Two guys who work in Shanghai with me were needed because they have way more male students in China than girl students because of their one child law. At the other school I was placed at, I might be teaching an AP English course...but we will see.

4. I turned in my first video for City Weekend! My boss really liked it. I will post it on here as soon as the final version is put on the website. It is how the metro system functions in Shanghai...you know, for those clueless expats (aka me). 

5. My friend told me today that she can go to Beijing with me on the National Holiday week! So excited! I will email my friend Henry to see if he would like to hang out with us  while we are up there. You can't go to China without seeing the Great Wall after all!

6. Last Saturday Quibao where we had a nice little feast set up by Ameson and went on a little boat ride through the ancient city. People here sell everything in the streets and there was a cricket museum that has cricket fights sometimes. There was an open door where this butcher was chopping up lambs. Interesting... 

7. My Internet was setup in my apartment today, but we don't have a router yet...being unplugged is hard. Thank goodness for this internet cafe :) 

P.S.: Shanghai has the cutest dogs everywhere! Although, this guy I saw on Nanjing Road is pretty bizarre. He has booties though!