Cards Anyone?

My Chinese classes in Bangor (Startalk) before I left were like giant cram sessions, but class here is a bit more relaxed. Over the past few days, we have spent the last hour or so of each class learning different Chinese card games. We have now been tasked with teaching our teachers some American card games. The trick is to teach them using only Chinese! 

In addition to cards my teacher here in Harbin likes to play many different kinds of games with us to reinforce what we have learned. A few days ago we played twister outside the school to help us learn our vocab words. There was a twister board drawn on the pavement with chalk and each of the boxes had words in them instead of colors. It was lots of fun, and it actually helped us learn as well.

           In another class, after we learned our foods, we spent the morning in the giant supermarket across the street from the school. There we played games in the produce section naming all the fruits and veggies that we knew and then we tried to trick the other team by giving them hard words and asking them to bring us that food item. We also raced around the supermarket with our team and had to give our teacher the name of every food item that we saw and knew in a limited time period. The losing team had to buy a snack for the winning team. Unfortunately my team lost, but they shared their snack with us anyway.

My Chinese 1 class standing in front of a memorial by the entrance of the supermarket.

I promise that this supermarket was in China, but it is interesting that the word "Produce" and caption underneath are not even in Chinese at all.

The large round fruit with spikes at the bottom of this picture is called a durian, or as the say in Chinese Liúlián 榴莲.

Most of the food they had in the supermarket, you could also find in any supermarket in America, but not everything.