One thing I really want to add to the unit, however, is situation-based interaction, and since I don't have any American waiters & restaurants, clerks & hotels, students & colleges, or advocates & demonstrations, I need the next best thing:
Pictures and dialogues.
So I invite you to share the American experience with my students - send me pictures you have of your hometowns, of foods you've eaten, and places you've been. I'll see if I can incorporate them into my lessons.
In other news I arranged a hike today with several of my friends and we went up 大罗山 to pick up garbage. I know it's not exactly the most enjoyable way to spend your last day off before school, but I got quite a few people to come along.
On the way down, after we had collected our garbage, one of the guys stopped to help an old woman carry some tools and supplies up the way we had just come. He said later that normally such actions to him would seem laughable, or would be met with laughter from others, but that after our exploits today he felt no qualms about extending himself to help others. ...that was cool.
