This guy was in our neighborhood yesterday. He just uses the bike pedaling to run his machine. Pretty ingenious. And the cotton candy is extremely shiny and in a perfect ball. As you can imagine, he was quite popular with the kids coming out of our neighborhood school.
On Tuesday, I had to go give a speech in An Ning. That is the school’s other campus, a little over an hour away by bus. I begged my way out of teaching there this year as I would’ve ended up with about 3 hours of commuting a day. But, there are events out there that we have to attend. I gave a speech to several thousand freshman. They stood on the athletic field at attention for an hour. My speech (3 of 6) was very short, just encouraging them to take a risk with their English. Many of the students had never seen a foreigner before.
We had an hour tour of the campus and a banquet lunch. I was given the honor of sitting between the President and Chairwoman of the college (they are husband and wife). It was an honor but I would have preferred NOT to be the center of attention. There were 17 people at the table, all high officials. At one point the highest Vice President (on the President’s right) began telling me jokes in English as the whole table watched us. I couldn’t understand him. It was a bit uncomfortable for a few minutes.
I have to go back to An Ning on Friday for Teacher’s Day. More speeches and banquets. The new Australian teacher has to give the speech for that. I am bummed because I have classes in the morning and will be gone all day - and that is Savana’s last day with us. But we are excited for her to head out.
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