Haňule z Kyjova

Today I had the first classes with the wonderful teacher Sarah. In the morning I woke a bit earlier to get ready for the presentations. We had a fried egg for breakfast and I ate it with chopsticks! That was really fun Than I went to school (alone) where Irene told me that the principal wants to talk to me in the afternoon.

The first class started at 9:10 and it was class 110. I was a bit nervous because it was the very first presentation! But the children were very nice and they listened carefully and silently. After the presentation they could ask me questions. A girl asked me if I like their sweets and candies and when I said yes, she gave me her own sweet small cake with a panda and other gave me a pinneple cake (which was really yummy).

Sarah warned me that they like to ask personal questions, and that’s true, in every class they asked me if I have a boyfriend, and usually it was one of the first questions After this lesson I had another class in 114, and again I was given a bottle of green tea! They are so generous! In this class Sarah and the children made me to sing our national anthem, so I was truly nervous and Sarah took a short video:D I haven’t mentioned that, but because of  their classes being so big, they use a microphone during the classes. So it was like a real performance for me

After this lesson we went for a lunch with Sarah. She is like me, she likes to talk a lot. So all the time we just chat, discussing the differencies between Taiwan and CZE, sometimes learning some chinese words and so. She took me to a traditional restaurant and ordered traditional food. I think I didn’t write about their eating habbits. In a restaurant and also at home they make more courses, give them on several plates, than you get your small bowl, where is rise and you just pick with your chopsticks a peace of anything you like from the plates and – I would say they are sharing the food, or plates.

When 3 full bowls of food appeared in front of us I was again shocked. First Sarah told me to try a bowl with transparent soup some rice and some tube looking pale things. She said I have to guess what it is. So I boldly took my chopsticks and picked one of these and ate it. It was a bit crunchy a bit chewy, very difficult to desribe, but the taste was not very distinctive. I thought that it is some part of entrails of an animal, and after I swallowed Sarah laughed and said it was pig’s intestine!!! aaaaaaaaaa!!!!!

But it was ok:) It is called the four-god soup, and it is very healthy The next bowl is noodles with intestine, oyster, garlic and chinese parsley. This one was a lot better, tastier, maybe because I love garlic. and the last bowl was some rice with verygreasy meat, egg and taiwanese pickles. I was so full again!! Sarah wrote me down also the characters for these courses so I can order it myself sometime!

I think, I’m getting you bored with all the food I write here about But it is always an experience!! SO to short, it for dinner I had my first hotpot. It is something we would call “eintopf” – everything is boiled in one bowl – lettuce, egg, meat, clams, crab meat, sausages, and a think that looked like a black block (and it was rice with, I’m not sure, but was probably a minced chicken bladder :D).

In the evening, after a lesson of chinese with my homepa (when I leraned how to properly pronounce the numbers), I showed him a video of czech republic and the Unesco heritage sites, and he really liked it.

Oh and I really made a mistake, giving the children at school my name. Now they all want to add me on facebook, so I will be really flooded by the taiwanese also “online”!