Foo Lun Cha

I've decided that it is indeed a useless task trying to forecast Yichang weather...we are back to about 20 degrees and sunshine this week after around 0 degrees and snow last week. Sooooooo....to change the subject, today I went off on another jaunt to give some lessons to another school in Yichang. This time not far away, just over in the city. As part of the "keeping good relationships with other schools" My school put me on loan every now and again, just to give some students and teachers that don't have foreign teachers at their schools a few lessons and a chance to speak with a native English speaker. Today I had two classes (40 kids in each) with some Junior One students. It was VERY HARD WORK!The students at this school only had very, very basic English. They couldn't speak or understand much at all. I often get told "our school(Y.C.F.L.S) is the best, has the best students, has the best teachers, has the best grades, best work ethic" etc etc etc. Today maybe I came to realise that it is infact, Very True! How lucky I am to have such great kids to work with. YES, some days they can be frustrating, but, they are great kids! Even the most troublesome seem to have BIG hearts and are more over excited than naughty. I'm so grateful to have come to "Yichang Foreign Language School."
I must make mention of a funny thing that happened whilst teaching one of the classes at the other school today, which is what inspired the title of this post. One child came up to the front to have a go at the "Taboo game" which I was playing with the kids...His word was "Bread"....I cant remember the taboo word...He desperately started telling his team "foo lun cha, foo lun cha!"Everyone looked puzzled. I said to him "NOOOOO...you can't speak Chinese in this game, ONLY ENGLISH...NO CHINESE!"He looked at me and said "Wo shuode Yingwen" which is "I'm speaking English"
It was then I realised along with everyone else, he was saying "For Lunch, For Lunch"
All everyone could do was laugh :-)The teachers took me out for dinner after classes and we were still all laughing about it. Ahh the joys of teaching English in China!!!