This week so far has been pretty dull, so this will be a pretty short entry. Monday I taught both my classes, and they were pretty uneventful. We finished up The Awakening in Short Novels and covered Whitman and Dickinson in my Honors American Literature class. The weather was remarkably nice on Monday--we had a high of about 70 degrees, which I'd never thought I'd see in November! Tuesday Kerry and I had another tutoring lesson from Deborah, from about 3:45-5:45 pm. We practiced conversations on going to the post office and learned some new vocabulary words. I do think my Chinese is improving, little by little. Deborah asked if either of us would be interested in reading to the daughter of a friend of hers: Kerry's not really interested, but I might be as long as it's not too much of a time commitment. I love reading to little kids because it brings back happy memories of when I was a child and my mom would read to me and Alison.
Wednesday I mostly just did prep work on The Great Gatsby: reading and working on a PowerPoint. Thursday was nice, though. Kerry and I went to this restaurant, Prego, at the Westin. We were cashing in on the raffle prize that he won in October. When we got there, we were pleased to discover that the "lunch" comes with a buffet of salads, appetizers, and desserts! I helped myself to such treats as bruschetta, cheese, tuna and tomato salad, pumpkin and feta salad, white kidney bean salad, and caprese salad. Yum! For the main course, I had beef with polenta and Kerry had pizza (of course). We also had soft drinks. One thing we like is that the people in the Westin all speak English very well, so it's sort of an oasis for us! I met the food and beverage manager, Danny, and he was very kind and gave me his card. Perhaps he can get us a good table when we go to the brunch for Kerry's birthday next month! That would be cool.
Tomorrow....our usual Friday routine: Chinese lessons, lunch, and then Kerry games while I grade.
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