Wednesday morning we broke into small groups and audited different classes. Many of the students had just returned from practicing teaching primary school for three weeks, so we got to hear many stories, and even see some video of the primary schools.
Next, we took a course for ourselves! They arranged for us to take an intro to Mandarin language course at the College. It was hard work. Even though the professor went easy on us, we were struggling to pronounce the tones correctly. However, we learned lots of useful information, such as how to order food at a restaurant in Chinese!
In the afternoon, we got to teach English classes using our own modules. We taught them to play hang-man, charades and Uno-- all while giving them an opportunity to practice their English.
Uno has become so popular among the students that we have visited, that several of the teachers went and bought decks online!
We finished our day with a cooking class at the restaurant at our hotel! We learned how to fold dumplings!
We also had a dumpling folding contest. The chef blew everyone else out of the water with the record of 7 seconds!
On Friday, we returned to the College of Primary Education for more auditing, group discussions and teaching English.
In the afternoon we had another party. They taught us how to make some Chinese pottery and how to do a few Chinese magic tricks.
In turn, we performed the Cha Cha slide and taught them the Cupid shuffle, as well as another dance that our students choreographed for this project.
This was our last day teaching at TNU. However, we have some busy days ahead, working with other organizations and learning some more about Tianjin.
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