Chinese person: "What are you doing tomorrow."
Me: "I have my first day of class."
Chinese person: "We need you to go somewhere. You can cancel your class for the day."
Me: "What will I be doing?" Chinese person: "You will go to a school and introduce yourself to some students there."
Cool beans. I get to cancel a class where I have yet to meet any students to go to a city I don't know, to talk to some mystery students at an unknown school. Aside from obvious communication problems I have here with the Chinese language, I think problems are exacerbated by the fact that sometimes people don't actually want me to know what is going on. At any rate, my class got cancelled and I met at my school at the time and place designated with another American teacher so we could do this mystery task. At this point the only thing we knew we were doing is going to another school and saying hi to students. We took an hour bus ride to the south east of Zhengzhou to a school in the country side. The drive was pleasant enough and it was nice to get out of Zhengzhou for the first time.
It was fun to be in the country and see an area that was not quite so busy.
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