Hey, uh, forget what I said about sports week. All that stuff about days off, hanging out, soaking things up...yeah, that's not happening. I found out early this morning, a few hours before my Wednesday classes normally begin, that I would in fact have to teach the rest of the week. This is why you don't schedule weather-dependent holidays. It's like a snow day in reverse. Right before the sports meet was set to begin, weather that would probably be a tropical storm by Chinese standards moved in over Wuhan. Nothing big, but enough to ruin your day.
Wildly unprepared, I went ahead and taught class, anyway. I can't say it was the most enthusiastic lesson, but we did talk about Halloween, so at least it's topical. The freshmen, being new to "Oral English" classes, are not familiar with it, as the sophomores are. Naturally, I talked about various customs and costumes. At the end, I passed out Hershey's Kisses™ on the condition that they come up to me and say, "trick-or-treat." That seemed to go over well. I'm teaching sophomores the next couple of days, so I'll have to try and throw something together. We'll see what happens--they can be a tough crowd sometimes. Maybe I'll write a lesson on how China snatches away your holidays. I'm guessing that won't go over as well.
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