Author: Bowen Liu

Tomorrow, I will be back in China!! And my parents and I are getting ready to go to the US together for my graduation.

Today, I saw a newly married couple. They were wearing traditional clothing on their wedding day.

I had to do a lot of works the day before the class that I would give a lesson. Going over dictionary, Writing down all the notes, figuring out most of the rhetoric techniques, have become the arduous things for me to do. It is not obligatory, but I feel like I have responsibility to do such things as a teacher.

This is what students’ textbook looks like

Night for enjoying music and celebrating New Year!

Last week was Myanmar’s New Year. The biggest and the most notable activity was called Water-Sprinkling Festival. As you all can see from the pictures, people splashed water over each other for fun as well as blessing to rinse away sickness and misfortune. What we did was, a person drove a truck, and the rest of people stood on top of it. Whenever we saw human-being, we splashed water over him(her or them).

The teaching job at the Chinese school was no longer fresh to me. There weren’t any interesting things happened in the class in the last week. Students here have computer class, Chinese history, geography, and Chinese. However, I can only sometimes teach Chinese. Teachers have their own curriculum plans. Thus, for most of my time, I generally helped students with their work, corrected their pronunciation, and sometimes talked with the teachers here regarding to their experiences and impressions of Myanmar. 

Last Sunday was my first time teaching at the Chinese School. It was ok, not as exciting as I had expected. This week I have been helping teachers with students’ work, and sometimes I went to the office and talked with my advisor about the process of my project. 

Here I posted some pictures. As you can see, this is what classroom looks like in Myanmar. Last week I was kinda like a student sitting in there and listening. This Sunday will be my first day of teaching officially. Yeah~~~

I am in Myanmar now, and tomorrow I am going to visit the school that I will be teaching at.