my class

the best class
Originally uploaded by organix.

this is my class 11. each class is numbered and they stay with the same class in the same room all day, the teachers go to the students... one day my friend jesse came to visit and took a picture and hung out with our class for a while. this really is a great class and they were sooooo excited when he came to visit. before he was even to the door, they were all screaming "nicole its your boyfriend, your boyfriend has come!!!" and i'm thinking, "really i didn't know i had one" and then jesse walks in the door to screams and cheering and ooohhing and ahhhing. of course their first question is "are you nicole's boyfriend?" and i say "no, he is my friend, he's an english teacher also" of course they are disappointed, but were still excited he was there.... i wasn't feeling so great that day, so jesse says, you can use me if you need to, to distract them. so of course they want to ask jesse questions.... one of the boys ligts up and is like "hey do your listen to nas, dr dre, outkast, etc..." jesse says "nas is one of my favorites" and immediately i'm no longer the coolest teacher they've ever met.... jesse has extremely curly hair and so one of the girls asks if he has ever thought of working on his singing and dancing and teaching "mr mcdonald" something... i am of course horrified, because she means ronald mcdonald.... jesse being the laid back cat that he is just says "no i'm not interested"... i apologized over and over to him, but apparently people think he is ronald mcdonald all of the time and they always ask him questions like that. then another girl asks him for his phone number and he says he has lost his phone (his was stolen as well) and she stands their mortified and i say, oh he won't give me his number either, do you have another question? she says "no i want to cry"... which i'm surprised she didn't, but i'm glad it didn't come to that.
i wanted to share jesse's and a few others from our programs websites. jesse's photos are amazing!
www.xanga.com/home.aspx?user=jessewarren
or
www.flickr.com/photos/jessewarren
others:
-mike
www.downdream.org
some of the best photographs of china that i've seen
-christina
more great photos and insight into life in china
www.xanga.com/home.aspx?user=smilehellokitty
or
www.flickr.com/photos/smilehellokitty
-tim kelley
www.timkelley.net
there are more, but i'll have to find them and post them later.
hope everyone is well!!!!!!!