Kindergarten

These are some pictures I snapped this morning. Every morning all across China, primary schools have "morning exercises" outside, where all the students line up and exercise, basically, to all this crazy music and counting in Chinese. It's the same time, routine, and music all across the country. Somewhat militaristic, somewhat dance school or something. I really don't have anything to compare it to. Well, Kindergarten doesn't do this as officially as the primary and senior schools do, but they sort of have "learn how to do morning exercises" or something, where the teachers count in Chinese while they do all these motions. That's what's going on in the pictures. They're not playing games, they're learning how to be little communists.

The one girl, Annie, saw I had a camera and asked me to take her picture. The gray building with the brown and white bricks and the windows in the back of the one picture is the Kindergarten building. These are three of my classes pictured... "Pre" is the small class in the rows (with the K building in the background left), Yellow's in the big circle, and Purple is featured in the next post. Annie's from "Pre."