Easter in China

WHAT A DAY!

Happy Easter everyone! Last week a couple of the guys here mentioned to Matthew that Easter was an important festival in England and he suggested we have an Easter party. This seemed a bit over the top but oh well; before we know it we were being asked what we wanted to drink, eat and who we wanted to come.

Yesterday started normally, except we were given a Chinese breakfast as opposed to our English one, we were upset but we soon realised that today was the day kids were coming to the Complex! Soon enough a bus load full of kids arrived and there was suddenly life in this place! Even if the power did go out again while I was washing my bedding!

The morning was spent cleaning my room! It amazes me how dusty everything gets here! Soon we headed into town and our party. We arrived but they were still getting ready so we were sent out to get some lunch. Beef noodles probably weren't the best choice as I ended up spattering myself with chilli and oil.

We then headed to go and get the guys' train tickets to Xi'an (they are going there for tomb sweeping), this took FOREVER as they had to wait for people to get their passports, get money, etc. We then headed up to the party.

I walked in and was greeted by various people I knew, namely teachers and students. Ah so it was one of those parties then? Great...

Nevertheless we soon had lots of fun! We played with balloons, decorated hard boiled eggs and socialised. I spent a lot of time with one of my teacher's five year old, his name was Toby and he was cute as a button! He stole my camera and took loads of photos which was amusing! 

The 5 year old in question

Jeff and I

Chris and his mother (one of the teachers from the Friday school, she is VERY generous!)

Victor and Jeff from my Thursday School, poor boys had to spend their whole weekend with me!!

Ros and Linda from my Friday School

Toby the Photographer

So after balloon fights and photos, we decided it was time for pass the parcel, this was a bit of a dampener because I felt like my fellow interns were undermining me in front of the children I have to teach. Comments like 'there are too many layers, this is getting really tedious' really got on my nerves because I spent an evening of my time preparing it with Alex and NO ONE else did ANYTHING. Really need a break from some people here (roll on Shanghai on Thursday). 

Anyway the rest of the party went well, though I quickly found myself getting tired. The food arrived and it was lovely, not the traditional lamb roast we were promised but the mutton was nice. We then performed Adele's 'Someone like you' and had performances from the kids. One of my kids (Chris) performed Boom Shi Boom! I was so proud of him!! We had desert, fruit salad and cake. Naturally the presence of cake meant we HAD to have a cake fight. 

Overall a really nice day! But we have been given a whole lot of food to eat too! Oh and my teacher gave me a coffee set!!