Day 26: Busy

Tuesdays are always my busiest days: I teach from eight thirty to eleven thirty, lunch until twelve thirty, inservice meetings and training from twelve thirty until whenever we finish (and sometimes it takes forever because people ask really great questions that no one has answers to), ELE teaching, for Chinese students who aren't involved in the ILP program, from three to four, and then finally Kung fu at seven to eight thirty. Needless to say, I am pretty worn out by the end of the day.

We didn't have Kung foo today, because it was pouring rain and our coordinator was worried our Kung fu skills weren't quite up to par for the slippery ground. I mean, we can't even do it on the dry ground, let alone adding some water into the mix.

When I got back from lunch, I just stared out the window and stared at the small river forming in the road. I haven't seen such a heavy rain storm in years, it was incredible. I reminded me of the summer days when I would just go out for a run because it was dumping outside. It was always such a calming feeling and everything buzzing through my mind was put to rest. Those were some of my favorite times.

I responded to the emails that were taking over my inbox, wrote a few birthday cards, worked on my lesson plans for next week, got supplies for our trip to the avatar mountains (we leave tomorrow at four pm!), and much more. It was a good afternoon, and I feel very productive yet again. It must be the weather here, or maybe the water, I just feel like I get so much more done here. It's a good feeling.

Pictures:
1: Ritik and Ben, the littles
2: Muddy road, it rained hard
3: Rain on Zhongshan