Videos and Pollution

Oh snap.

http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/english/doc/2004-07/15/content_348397.htm

Skim down to the fourth paragraph. Skip over some of the names which are near unpronounceable (after studying Pinyin, they are still difficult for me), and you will see down the list a city:

Shijiazhuang in Hebei Province

Word. I'm living in a city that ranks 7 out of 10 in poor air quality. Strangely, I haven't noticed it too much. Our school is just on the edge of the city, so perhaps that is part of it. The times I've been down town haven't been bad though.

In other news, one of my fellow teachers took some videos on my camera of me teaching. I put them together and uploaded them.
http://www.llarian.net/~xhentild/China/Teaching2.wmv

The first video, I am teaching a proverb. You'll notice at the end I blow on the chalk. The tray that the chalks rests in has about a quarter inch of chalk dust…
In the second video, we are playing a game: The Adverb game. I had each participant write an action on a piece of paper, then write an adverb on another piece. Then a team volunteered to come up, randomly pick one action and one adverb, and act it out without using words. Then the other teams had to guess (I had prizes). I think this one was reading quietly.

Enjoy.