China {week two}

This week we started teaching! Between first and third grade, we are beat by the end of the day. The kids are seriously adorable. Definitely stinkers--- but cute ones.

This week for 1st grade I am teaching gym! We have done {attempted} relay races, a three legged race, and a spoon-launching-cotton ball improvised game so far. Haha! They love to run around and can't quite say McKayla yet. But we'll work on that.

This semester for 3rd grade I am teaching spelling and grammar! I always loved this subject in school so it has been so fun getting the kids excited about it! I love my third graders. They all know my name and always make sure to tell me "Hi Teacha McKayla" each time I see them. It's so cute.

Between teaching and lesson planning, throughout the week we don't have much time to do anything else. However, we have found some good dinner places and also got our Netflix hooked up to the TV so that's been super!

Our adventures start as soon as school gets over on Friday's. This Friday we ventured into another part of Nanjing {we've found that Nanjing is seriously huge} in search of American food. Hours later, all we found was a sketchy cheese filled fridge with a cat crawling around inside. So that was nasty. BUT on the way to and from the Metro we found some adventures!

We played "never have I ever" while doing a Chinese fire drill on the Metro, took selfies with random Asians, walked into a Taken scene, found a gorgeous Chinese Temple, joined a Chinese dance class, found bread {hallelujah} & ... then passed out. That's when ya know it was a good day!

Saturday we slept in, trip planned, and were off in search of a real Chinese temple. Along the way we found the 11th tallest building in the world! It was taller than any other building I've seen, that's for dang sure. We then found the temple and it was so cool!! Except.. it had closed minutes earlier. So we'll have to go back later. But we did find this big lake! It has paddle boats for rent so next time we'll be doing that! The lake itself was awesome though. There was so much fog/pollution that is was almost creepy, yet incredible.

Next me and a couple of the girls got our nails done for $3.50 (US dollars) so that was the best thing ever. Then we got dinner and went grocery shopping! We found so much stuff and ended up literally getting kicked out of the store because they were closing. It was hilarious. Finally, we had a midnight deep cleaning party in our dorm with some bleach and a shower hose! It was a great day!

Sunday we had to wake up early for our 1.5 hour commute to church. Church was good! We had a linger longer with the members from the branch and got to know them a little bit more, which was nice! Everyone in the branch is very welcoming and sweet! We actually got invited to dinner at the branch president's house {yes all 20 of us!!} We had dinner there tonight which was great! Their family has been such a big help AND we had tacos!! Which isn't Chinese food so it was freakin grand. After dinner we went back to our dorms and had a catch phrase night! Overall, this week was pretty great, and I'm still loving China!