Things That Make Me Smile

On Tuesday I was walking out of the “Xeroxing room” on campus and there were my Grade 2, Class 4 kiddos. The ENTIRE class. I honestly don’t know I saw them or if I heard “MS HERRIDGE!!!!” screamed from 36 tiny people first. Either way, I was immediately mobbed and they start prattling in Chinese about… something that is apparently so very exciting that I should be able to supernaturally be able to understand Chinese because of the magnitude of their excitement. Then, Stan looks at me and says “SCIENCE!” and hand motions test tubes being poured and blowing up. Then, a bunch of my kids start hopping around like rabbits and making bunny ears. Then they say “we look!” and point at the construction work being done over the school wall. So, I can honestly say I have no idea what they were doing out there. Either way, their homeroom teacher was in a great mood (yay for everyone!) and took my picture with ALL of my kids! She was so great! It’s almost impossible to do this in the classroom, so it’s exciting that I have at least one full class picture – and its outside! Of course, it’s nasty and gray – but it’s Taiyuan, so that’s expected.