Hot calm afternoon

So I often don't have a lot to do on Friday afternoons. I am at co-school and thus away from my resources and because we have meetings everyother week I have no classes. Someone told me once that I should be interacting with students, which I do a bit, but it's hard to talk to students who don't speak English and laugh at your Chinese for 3 hours. Today I watched the 6th grade practice dragon dancing. That's actually pretty cool kinda like seeing the backstage rehersal of a play, but I teach all the students so I know them. The coach then lectured them and hit one kid in the face. I may have mentioned that hitting kids does not have the definitive no on it the way it does in the US. This wasn't a hard hit, more like batting a cat on the nose. Still very affronting to have someone put their hand in your face.

I then watched art class and tried to talk to kids. Most wouldn't respond, some couldn't stop laughing when I asked how old they were. Pretty funny. Now I'm sitting here contemplating that covering myself in talc has done little good in this heat and humidity and I'm wondering what I will do through the summer. Perhaps I will write more from an air conditioned haven. Perhaps I will have nothing to write because I don't leave my air conditioned haven.

Dad comes in tomorrow. We have a lot planned with the help of my teacher. I must say though, this country would not be very accesible if I didn't have Taiwanese friends to help. It took Roxanna and I nearly all afternoon to book a room at the promisedland, a hotel my mum was project manager on (after I tried on my own) and a rafting trip, and Roxanna is Taiwanese! Hopefully everything will go fine and my Dad will get from the airport without mishap.