Wok and Roll and lots of laughter

............................................................... This Friday night the students,some colleagues and I will sit down for a Chinese dinner and reflect on those almost five months of teaching and studying - were we ( was I with English as my subject ) able to motivate them? Did we cover enough material?Have their skills improved? When will the better ones move from our present rather mechanical conscious competency level to the more magical unconscious competency one? None of this "serious stuff" happened..instead there was a lot of laughter,good food and easy togetherness and a few guest joiners as well.


It seems and feels like the atmosphere in the class has gotten a bit "rougher" and a bit less inviting.....maybe the more difficult tests are to blame for this heating up? Or maybe the students know more of each others' knacks and neurosis(es )and have they not also figured us out - their teachers by now? Again - no heaviness here - just a lot of sympathetic good will!Whatever - school shuts down on December 18th and we won't come back until January 5th,2009.

There is a nice Christmas tree in our building and I hope you will enjoy the embedded John Lennon Happy Christmas ( War is Over ) song as well.