I got one!

Come out, come out, wherever you are!

This past Wednesday and Thursday the lawn space in front of the foreign teacher building has been crawling with Chinese students frantically searching and occasionally jumping up and down. Why? What did they lose?

Nothing. They're searching for what they never had to start with. (hmm... interesting tie there). There searching for one of the 50 hard boiled Easter eggs freshly cooked up in dining hall 2. (Which is interesting to try to explain needing 50 eggs from the dining hall workers. They try to give you 5 thinking your Chinese is bad, then 3, then are utterly confused what and how you'll deal with 50.)

As part of Ashley's English corner explaining the purpose and reason for Easter, she also brought in some other Easter traditions. This included an 7 min walk from the classroom over to the yard area where 4 other foreign teachers had stashed the 50 eggs high and low for students to find.

Some of the student had never heard of this Holiday before and definitely hadn't had an Easter egg hunt before, but they were loving it and doing it quite well. Some students near sprinted around looking for eggs while others meandered around in a state of confusion as to what was going on.


Of course, the Chinese collective mentality kicked in so it was important everyone have one weather they found it or not. They also had to work together to get some of the "higher" eggs. (Ok, to be honest. I put a few up in the trees so they had to work for it... I forgot the fact that most of the students on our campus are short, tiny little Chinese girls. Needless to say a few times they had to call over the taller student to help or as you see demonstrated two or three girls hoist another one up to grab it.

Every student had at least one, but they were still competitive. Three students were quite proud of their 5 egg hand and giggled as they presented them for the final group picture. So many giggles. I'm glad the snow stopped last week so we could have an egg hunt.

One more reason to celebrate - no where near the best reason tho.