I am putting together a map quiz for my freshman, I feel like a 5th grade social science teacher. I am even making a bunch of different quizzes so there are no cheaters—you never know! On Thursday I caught a student sleeping in class, which is actually common here (meaning Chinese don’t think it’s rude—it’s ruder to not come to class, or at least that is what my students told me), but it made me angry so I embarrassed him by yelling “Wake Up! Good Morning!” and other things like that. Anyway, this Thursday I’m bringing an alarm clock and a camera. If someone is sleeping first I will take a picture, then I will set the alarm so it will go off! However, I do feel a little bit bad about this because they do have to wake up at 6 in the morning to go running in the cold and then have classes all day long.

I seriously love it here though—my students are too precious beyond words. They are just so cute and nice to me! Tonight one of them was reading the other foreign teacher’s Cosmopolitan magazine at her apartment. After she read some of the articles she looked up and announced, “It attacked me! You know in China the sex does not touch us,” I finally figured out she meant it shocked her how sexual the magazine was.