Sunshine's pictures of our outing on Saturday and "back-to-school" pics

The equivalent of "Twitter" in China is "We Chat". It has basically the same functions, but an added option the "Chat Live"- interesting.
 I have had my account since September, but I forget to check it occasionally. Sunshine could not email her pics to me, so she sent them on We Chat. I had a lot of traffic and pics there- fun! I'll have to add it to my daily 'check" of networking sites.

 The above is a well-known street of restaurants built into 1930s housing on old Shanghai. Beautiful! Out Vegetarian  restaurant was across the street from this seafood restaurant. I loved the fish in the tank in the window- can you see them?

 These shops are on "Cheap Street" and I am going back- I almost bought a "Chinese embroidered silk " jacket, but we could not find my size in the pattern I wanted - AND - the shop keeper said it was 598 rmb( almost $100.00 Cdn!!!)- ( goodness- no way!). Sunshine made a hand gesture meaning "one-half" and I thought to myself "one-third". Our restaurant reservation was in 10 minutes - not enough time to "haggle"- but I'll go back

You don't really get the feel of the street- but really "local" - with food stalls, clothing stalls and the like. Sunshine pointed out men and women with three and four green garbage bags and told me they buy "cheap" on Cheap Street and sell items at a 100% mark up in other areas of the city ( in "shops" of better quality - and more accessible to tourists- no kidding)
Back to School:

 My "new" schedule includes the SAME classes, ONE change to the timetable ( one less 7:55 a.m class - wahhooo!) and room changes.  Now, I have access to projectors for Ppt in EIGHT of my classrooms- and I have so many fantastic lectures I could give with Ppt and "morph" them into "oral English" lessons. So, I photographed the cable (once again) and I am seriously thinking of visiting the Apple Store on Nanjing Road and buying the adaptor cable. It would make the rest of the term more fun, for me for sure- and probably the students , too. LOTS of Canadian content….

 This is ONE of my SIX Pre-Junior classes - Grade Six - so cute and so ready to get back to work today. Just love them!

My two Senior 1 classes ( back-to-back -divided into two groups of 25 students each- 40 minute each- with a ten minute break between the two) got "morphed" into ONE group of 50 students for ONE 40 minute period- ( groups a and b together) unbeknownst to me- Typical! Did it mess up my curriculum plan? You bet! Each group ( one at 1: 30 p.m. and one at 2:25 pm.) EACH had four students scheduled to present. HOW DO I MANAGE THIS? I asked for volunteers and THREE brave students tepped up to the plate. I LOVE my Senior 1's and Senior 2's- they are much closer to my regular teaching in Canada- have excellent English and wonderful senesce of humour.
Here's "Benny" - his English ahem. What a dynamo! He was NOT scheduled to talk at all - but volunteered. A "Pro"- future Politician?)