The cold weather is here.
Hello all, Although last Sunday I sat at Starbucks, outside, in the sun, sipping a pumpkin spice latte, watching the world go by, it is now cold. Not as cold as there but cold enough to wear a sweater and a jacket. It has been off and on cold for the last 2 - 3 weeks (you know those days when you don't know what to wear) but I was still dressing quite lightly and even wore my summer clothes a couple of days. Now I'm bundling up a little bit and will soon have to wear a winter coat.
We went on a school trip to Suzhou last Saturday but it was quite poorly planned. We spent most of the time on the bus with only 3 stops. The first was at Pearl City where I did buy some jewellry very cheap. Mostly I bought pearls but I did get myself some earrings made from shells that are fun for work. We then drove close to an hour to get downtown for lunch. I ended up eating at McDonalds with a few other people. Some found a TexMex restaurant and I don't know about the rest of the people. We then drove about another hour and went to Tiger Hill which was the best thing about this whole trip. It was very peaceful and tranquil, quite beautiful and has a pagoda style tower in the centre, high up which leans just like in Pisa. We only had an hour here so not enough time to actually go to this tower. So 3 of us took the horse and cab ride around the perimeter. Unbeknownst to us it only goes half way around and their was no way they were letting us even go back the way we came for the rest of it. It was a nice walk the rest of the way, however. Then back on the bus for the 3 hour ride back home. It wasn't so bad on the bus though since on the way there I got to know people from our other campuses and on the way back chatted a lot with my regular friends. We also played the city game for awhile which was interesting because there were people from many parts of the world which brought in different city names. A bit of a geography lesson.
Everyone here is very busy counting down the time, not so much til Christmas but til we are all home with our families.
Everyone at the YW knows how I feel about starting Christmas activities too early with the children since it is such a long wait for them will understand how I feel when I say that yesterday I had to start singing Christmas songs with the children so they would know them by Dec. 8th when we have our Christmas fun day. One little girl ask me if Christmas was tomorrow. It just about broke my heart thinking how is she going to wait 7 more weeks.
Okay I have to get to work now.
We went on a school trip to Suzhou last Saturday but it was quite poorly planned. We spent most of the time on the bus with only 3 stops. The first was at Pearl City where I did buy some jewellry very cheap. Mostly I bought pearls but I did get myself some earrings made from shells that are fun for work. We then drove close to an hour to get downtown for lunch. I ended up eating at McDonalds with a few other people. Some found a TexMex restaurant and I don't know about the rest of the people. We then drove about another hour and went to Tiger Hill which was the best thing about this whole trip. It was very peaceful and tranquil, quite beautiful and has a pagoda style tower in the centre, high up which leans just like in Pisa. We only had an hour here so not enough time to actually go to this tower. So 3 of us took the horse and cab ride around the perimeter. Unbeknownst to us it only goes half way around and their was no way they were letting us even go back the way we came for the rest of it. It was a nice walk the rest of the way, however. Then back on the bus for the 3 hour ride back home. It wasn't so bad on the bus though since on the way there I got to know people from our other campuses and on the way back chatted a lot with my regular friends. We also played the city game for awhile which was interesting because there were people from many parts of the world which brought in different city names. A bit of a geography lesson.
Everyone here is very busy counting down the time, not so much til Christmas but til we are all home with our families.
Everyone at the YW knows how I feel about starting Christmas activities too early with the children since it is such a long wait for them will understand how I feel when I say that yesterday I had to start singing Christmas songs with the children so they would know them by Dec. 8th when we have our Christmas fun day. One little girl ask me if Christmas was tomorrow. It just about broke my heart thinking how is she going to wait 7 more weeks.
Okay I have to get to work now.
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