Talent Show & Science Museum

We've had quite the week already, despite the fact that it's only Wed morning for us here. As I mentioned before, we have about 14 exchange students here from Vancouver, and it's been great having them around. Of course, in an effort to be a good host, the Chinese school we work in arranged all kinds of trips and outings for these kids, and also put US in charge of entertaining them somehow for Monday afternoon. We came up with the idea of having a big talent show. It was so great to see how many of our students took part in performing something, and it was also interesting to note the correlation between fantastic musical talent and high academic achievement among some of our students. I tried posting a video I took of one boy playing piano, but it wouldn't load for some reason... I'll show you on my laptop when I get home this summer.

The Canadian kids also took part and did a really funny skit of their time in China so far. I don't think our Chinese students really got it, but it was SUPER funny for Andrew and I b/c we could totally identify with their scenes about the traffic, riding the metro, Chinese morning exercises & eye massages (see above pic!).

Then on Tues we all went to the Shanghai Science & Technology Museum which is kinda like Science World in Vancouver but a lot more grand. The building is really new and the architecture is amazing. A couple funny things happened, one being that one of the most "interesting" (read weird) kids we teach called Jet, randomly bought a wooden hand (of all things!) from the gift shop. Of course it was nabbed from him right away by his classmates, and put in all kinds of interesting positions (see above pic). We never stop laughing at Frank and David's antics!

Then we busted 4 of our boys playing cards while they were supposed to be looking at the science exhibits. We spotted them from a balcony 3 floors up playing cards below, and decided to freak them out a little. Andrew started making paper balls out of the museum map/brochure (see above) and chucking them down at the guys, landing them all around them, and finally right on their laps...
I had the camera zoomed in and ready to catch their surprised looks (see above)... too funny!

Finally, here we are on our 2nd anniversary in the museum. We held the camera down below us so we could get the cool glass globe building in above/behind us.

Thanks so much everyone for all your good wishes and congrats on our anniversary- it was a great day!