I got woken up by a text this morning saying that the grade 4 teacher was off sick so I would be covering his class today. I got to school and had reading with grade 4 and I had to take the register. Not easy when I am still trying to learn names and faces! Luckily it's a really nice class and the kids helped. I had their homework to mark and aother pile of marking that I have been working through to do before I had them again at 10.30am. I then had English with them until lunchtime and the lesson went really well, it's a lot different from working with grade 1, the kids just get on with what you tell them to do! It's still taking a bit of getting used to. After lunch I had more marking to do, then I had to sit in on the calligraphy lesson as apparently the kids are badly behaved in that lesson, but they were all really good today. It has been an enjoyable day and after school a group of us went out for an indian which was nice and I got to catch up a bit more with how everyone else is getting on. It is weird being on the fourth floor as you don't see people as much as I did when I was on the first floor and it's gone from sharing an office with 11 other people to being just me and James so it has been a bit lonely today with James being off sick.
On a different note, the pollution level was 340 today (anything over 300 and we don't let the kids go outside at playtime) and I heard the stupidest comment today that pretty much sums up China's attitude towards health and safety, "it's ok, it's natural pollution". As far as I am concerned, pollution is pollution and if the air is so bad that it makes my chest hurt when i'm walking in it to school in the morning then frankly it's just not safe to be out in. This is very high on my list of things that I hate about China, pollution and also the spitting!
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