She's Back!

So it's been another crazy and busy week (and then some) for me in China. I got my Bernie Bunny back last Sunday! She's still the same giant sized rabbit although a bit better behaved. So far she has proved herself to be litter trained only using her cage and not my floor. I've found that the draw back to this is a stinkier cage much more quickly. Bernie has been having fun sticking her nosy nose in every nook and crany in my apartment. This year I'm not being a very good bunny mom. I leave my apartment almost every morning at 6:30 and some days I don't get back till after 10 at night which means a lot of hours in the cage for Berns. As soon as I get paid though I going to try to buy a bigger cage for her.

The cute little pink folding bike didn't work out quite as well as I had hoped. I took it over to Haidian for my Saturday classes and it was a pain in the butt! I finally figured out how to fold it but I just couldn't find a good, comfortable way to carry it. It was askward, heavy and getting me dirty! After one trip through the subway with it, I decided that was enough! The next day, with the help of a Chinese friend, I exchanged it for a full sized bike that I like so much better! It's shiny and red! I'll have to keep a bike in both places but, oh well, that's a lot easier than trying to drag one through the subway. (I did take some pics of the folding bike before getting rid of it for those of you who are curious about how exactly it works.)

I'm super busy with school work this week. I have 36 (chinglish) rough drafts and 36 quizzes to correct. The quizzes are quick and easy but the students want them back right away. The rough drafts are a ton of work to correct. Most of my students have never written a formal English paper before. Unbelievable the fight to get them to hand them in typed (gasp!) in Times New Roman 12 point font and double spaced. Of the 25 or so I collected yesterday (big problem with late papers) I handed back at least ten for incorrect formatting. And this was after I spent half a class period demonstrating exactly how to do all that in Word! Arg! I just keep telling myself, it'll get better.

Oops! I have class in a few minutes. Gotta go!