Today was the final day of English camp. As well as the day the Native Americans came to town.
The morning was filled with the last chapter of the book and the anticipation for the afternoon ceremony. Most of the ceremony was in Chinese so it was kind of boring but there was another guy who was there who is Chinese and is fluent in English. :) I'm so thankful he was there to be able to translate. :) During and after parents, campers and teachers were crying. Was a very emotional time. I say thank you a lot to Chinese. In the Chinese culture you rarely say "Thank you" Many parents and students were thanking there teachers and parents. I had little boys coming up to me saying thanks and weeping. They storys that came out of that day were very interesting. You had a kid who had spent 17hrs a day on the computer as a hacker. He creates and changes programs and is only 14. He has been doing it for 7 years. His parents sent him to English camp just to get him away from the computer. There's another kid who is father died right after his wife gave birth and a year or so later his mother dropped him off at his grandparents house and never came back. There were so many touching storys. In the evening after all the students left we as teachers went out to dinner to celebrate the end of camp. We also went karaokeing and went to a place to play pool. Needles to say I didn't get back to my apartment until like 2:30 am. The Chinese know how to party hard.
The morning was filled with the last chapter of the book and the anticipation for the afternoon ceremony. Most of the ceremony was in Chinese so it was kind of boring but there was another guy who was there who is Chinese and is fluent in English. :) I'm so thankful he was there to be able to translate. :) During and after parents, campers and teachers were crying. Was a very emotional time. I say thank you a lot to Chinese. In the Chinese culture you rarely say "Thank you" Many parents and students were thanking there teachers and parents. I had little boys coming up to me saying thanks and weeping. They storys that came out of that day were very interesting. You had a kid who had spent 17hrs a day on the computer as a hacker. He creates and changes programs and is only 14. He has been doing it for 7 years. His parents sent him to English camp just to get him away from the computer. There's another kid who is father died right after his wife gave birth and a year or so later his mother dropped him off at his grandparents house and never came back. There were so many touching storys. In the evening after all the students left we as teachers went out to dinner to celebrate the end of camp. We also went karaokeing and went to a place to play pool. Needles to say I didn't get back to my apartment until like 2:30 am. The Chinese know how to party hard.
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