September 2, 2013

In the morning we attended our first day of shadowing an ESL teacher, Haley who is from Oklahoma. It was actually her first day teaching as well and she did a great job. Teaching is all about engaging and I feel like you will have to make personal connections so your students feel like they can connect with you and relate to you. I am sure I will have a lot more to say about things like this once I start teaching. We spent most of the rest of the morning at the CIBT Office hanging out and using the internet since its really fast internet there compared to our apartments haha. Today was also the day we were going to sort out our banking issues.Season took us to the Bank of China and tried again to convince the Chinese that we were not money launderers. Our first attempt resulted in Cyrus and I getting our accounts but the others were still blacklisted. So we decided to try a different branch, and sure enough, they were able to get their accounts. It was such a random crap shoot to get an account, it made no sense at all with no rhyme or reason as to why we were being denied so many times. And then suddenly being able to have an account made no sense either, but whatever, it’s all good. We have our accounts and will be able to be paid! Haha.