Winter weather in a Chinese classroom
If you think the latest blast of winter weather here in America is cold, you should check out this Denver Post article by one of my fellow volunteer teachers in Hunan last year, Zach Reff:
Huang Zhi Ping was tired of being cold. His head buzzed, his ears stung, and his hands were too numb to take notes. So he took out a lighter and did what any other frozen 11-year-old would do: He lit a fire inside of his school desk. As his teacher, I suppose I should have been angry with him, but actually, lighting a fire seemed like a pretty good idea to me.
Welcome to winter in Hunan, China.
March 11th, 2008 at 2:20 pm EST
I never really understood dancing until that point, when I smelled my hands after…
March 11th, 2008 at 10:49 pm EST
So did you wear all your winter gear to teach too?
March 11th, 2008 at 11:08 pm EST
Yep. But it was ok … having 60-80 bodies in the room was a surprisingly effective form of “central heating”! Still, I wouldn’t have survived without my thermals …
March 16th, 2008 at 10:14 am EST
If you think the winter you’ve experienced was cold enough, U REALLY should come and feel the greatest winter here early this year!