Rain

It's raining in Beijing! Reasons why I'm happy about that:

1. It reminds me of home.
2. Fall is coming.
3. I like rain (especially at night).
4. Bike jackets. I wish I had a picture to show you... they're the coolest things. Sort of like parkas that cover your bike as well. Everyone in China has them and they're amazing.
5. A rainy day in Beijing is almost always followed by a "blue sky" day, thanks to the rain clearing all the... stuff... out of the sky. And believe me, there is a lot of stuff. So a clear, sunny day tomorrow would be awesome--a great start to the weekend.

Today was a good day. My classes went pretty well... Kindergarteners love to draw, handing them a piece of paper and a crayon is like a free ticket for a relatively quiet 40 minutes. I definitely recommend it. Anyway, today we colored the classroom objects we've been learning this week, for example:

Myself: First, class, we will color the scissors.
Class: SCISSORS!!
Then they color.

See, it's pretty simple :) Tomorrow should be more of the same, although one of my cooperating teacher's requested a story, so I'm thinking Goldilocks and the Three Bears, but we'll see. Also, tomorrow at lunchtime we foreign teachers are planning a get-together to say hello to the Chinese English teachers we'll be working alongside for the year. Hopefully that'll be a fun time, and it oughta be for sure if my "blue sky" prediction holds true.

Saturday we're travelling to another CTF school in Beijing called Huija that has two teams, who we'll hang out with for the weekend. Rumor has it they have a bowling alley on campus... I hope this rumor is true. It's looking like I might travel over October holiday (first week in Oct.), maybe to a city called Taiyuan to meet some other CTFers and then on to X'ian, the ancient capital where they dug up the terra cota (sp?) warriors a few year's back.

Seriously, it's a beautiful night here--so peaceful and blue. Mellow. Rain is awesome. I'm gonna go back to enjoying it.