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So the first week of classes is over and we are into week two. This week we are picking English names. My students are so awesome. Some of the most interesting names are Anubis, K.O., Harry Potter, Mr. Frank, Mr. Steve, Niko, Wait, Pierre Martin, Remington, Reginald, Winston, Kingston, and many more. The students really have a good time picking them out. For the second class this week I will tell them the meanings to all of their names. We also celebrated teacher's day on Sunday. There was a ceremony and we got gifts. They gave us flowers and a cool book of stamps. It is pretty neat actually. A lot of my students are giving me gifts too. I am falling in love with all of them they are so sweet. They gave me a Chinese name too. It is Xiao Ya which I am told means graceful. But if you say it with the wrong tone it means duck. LOL. Today in one of my classes six or seven boys were 5 minutes late so I made them sing a song for me. It was awesome. This one boy was so into it. The whole class cheered. Then I had forgotten my sunglasses in my last class so I went to get them and I came back, the students were like "Miss Dani, you are late you have to sing" So I sang them a song and I got a standing ovation it was pretty sweet. I am excited for this weekend. We are going to Beijing to see the Paralympics. I AM SUPER EXCITED!!! This past weekend we went to this park they have here in Handan. It is very pretty but they have this zoo that is so sad. The cages are so small and there is no such thing as grass here. But the park was pretty and we say some cool things. I am putting a lot of pictures in this post since I have been slacking on my blogging (sorry). I'm not sure if I've forgotten to talk about anything but if I did I will put it in my next post. Oh yeah, when we went to the zoo there were these kids that were following us around taking our picture. It was like we had our own little fan club. They are the kids included in the pics here.