Victor's Day!

It's your day, Victor! Happy Birthday! We had an extremely exciting day filled with a lot of joy and laughter. And also a lot of cake in the face.

UNO, a very addictive card game.

We have all been playing a lot of UNO. It's a great game. I haven't played so much UNO since I was a child. We play it with a lot of good cheer and a lot of scream. "AHHHH!!! +4"

Let's Welcome Tait!

Here's our new intern, Tait. He's very helpful and very nice. We went out to dinner to celebrate his official first day.

St Patrick's Day Celebration

Everyone wear green or get pinched! Listened to some irish music and had some sandwiches.

Mitchel's Going Away Present

We made a photo book and filled it with drawing and notes for Mitchell. Each of us had to write two pages worth! It was quite a large book.

Mitchell's Going Away Dinner

Mitchell you've been a great teacher. We're sad to see you so. Mr. Popular had two dinner that night :p

Kevin and John's Surprise Bday Photos

Kevin & John's Surprise BDay Party

We had a surprise birthday party for Kevin and John. We had hot pot. It worked out great. We finally had enough food for all the monster eaters in our group. Two large pots and one mini pot and tons of food was finally enough. One event where I actually got enough to eat :D.

Spring Outing 2009: Pirate Ship

I was only present for the 1st round on the pirate ship. This has to be their favorite ride. Wendy and Helen were definately the thrill seekers of the bunch. Ivy would be voted the loudest screams. They *ahem* convinced Victor to go the second round, which I was happy I missed.

Student President: "We enjoyed the pirate ship the most. Ivy and Victor had many rich varied faces."

BBQs in China are very dangerous affairs...Victor was victorious is finally getting a BBQ plate to work. It was a very interesting affair for me. The students showed a lot of strength and perseverance in cooking their food. ;)

Student President: "Cooking the lamb skewers was very difficult, but the lamb skewers were very delicious. We were very proud that we finally cooked all the skewers. There were large quantities of smoke. I suggest we were goggles next time!"

Spring Outing: Spring 2009 : Paintball

It was extremely wet and muddy out, but the boys(and Ivy) braved the harsh weather to go play paintball against each other. The rules specified NO headshots, but the ONLY shots that hit were headshots...too much CS...

Student Body President: "We only played a very short while. They should have let us play longer! It was unfair!"

Spring Outing to Gong Qing Forest Park

It was a cold rainy day, but I really enjoyed Gong Qing Forest Park. Usually it's crowded with a million people (especially a million brides taking wedding photos), but yesterday it was only us. We saw one other group with 5+ people BBQing during lunch, but the whole entire park was empty. It was just a great feeling to be out in the woods with nobody else there but us. :)

Student Body President: "Even though the weather wasn't very good, we still had a great time."

Tomorrow! Spring Outing: Gong Qing Forest Park

Gong Qing Forest Park is the second-largest park of Shanghai.

"It has grassy meadows, fir and bamboo groves and bird trills are very real. Horseback riding, roller coasters, merry-go-rounds, go-kart rides and a rock-climbing wall are among the entertainment options. To get around Gongqing, you can walk, catch a shuttle, ride a tandem-bike or boat."

We are planning to play paintball, do a BBQ lunch, then do some rides. Looking forward to some awesome photos. 

Valentines Day Celebration

Lucien: Everyone had a good time. We played touch man in the dark this time. It was more fun in the darkness. We were sad that Victor was absent.

William: I am very happy, because I caught Ivy.

Online Guide for Papers and References

I will also use this blog to post useful resources for students:

The follow is an excellent online guide for MLA writing and references. It's an easy way to look things up when you don't have a MLA style reference on hand. It gets into details about how exactly to format your paper.

Please use this guide for ALL your work and references in the future.

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/557/01/

Electronic Resources
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/557/09/

Enjoy! :D

Have a Happy Chinese New Year!

I hope everyone has a safe and happy Chinese New Year!

I know there's some homework, but I have tried to make it more fun and interesting rather than more dreary work. Ex. calculating soccer teams costs, stock prices, etc.

Have a good time!

Viewing College Videos

I prepared videos from Monash, RMIT, University of Iowa, etc. etc. to show in more detail what the Universities are like.

Students were a bit confused about the University fo Victoria bunnies situation, but were amused anyways to watch videos of bunnies.

Old School Video Games Competition

That is Steve the winner of the Super Mario portion of the Old School Video Games Competition. Everyone died mostly because they were used to playing on a keyboard. You only have one life to lose, so the games went quickly. Steve though defied all expectations and made it to level 1-3.

Kevin had unreal luck in level 80 Tetris and narrowly beat out the other leading candidate Mitch. As a group we suspect he's hacked the program (joking) ;)

It was a lot of good wholesome Old School fun

Thanks to Kelvin for Organizating it

Creative Writing: Jedis and Fashion

Running out of ideas for your essays? Check these out from our students!

The Champions of the Wall Team Ping Pong Tournament

Okay....so I've never played ping pong before. It was pretty bad.

The champion team played beautifully though and here they are in their team photo.