New year, Oympic games and English Party

I still have to write a little more about my trip but I need to add one blog in the middle before I forget how crazy it was. The oher day our program director asked us to if we wanted to go and play some games with some little kids on Monday. So me and a couple of my friends not having class that day though it would be fun so we volunteered. Like most things in China we had no idea what we where getting ourselves into. We show up and there are some college kids who helped to organize this party for some little kids at a local library. The first thing they asked us was if we could sing or dance. Of course none of us could and they asked if we had any skits planned and again our director failed to let us know that we should put something togethere. So we decided what the heck we where going to wing it. So we show up and it is in a little room of library with a small stage and they start telling us the activities that they had planned. Thank god they had enough for us to do or else we would have been dead. Because the only music they had for us that was in English was the Backstreet Boys from when i was in High school. It was Ok though they just had us play a few games and we played with the kids and the audience. It was kind of bizarre to us but someone said that they saw a game show on Chinese TV where they had foreigners on the show and they played pretty much the same games so I guess it did not seem strange to them. We played all kinds of games like Chinese hacky sack,Charades, and this game where we had to see how many marbles we could move from one plate to another with chopsticks. They also wanted us to explain how in the west we use knives and forks as opposed to Chopsticks. That was kind of strange we thought. They tried to teach us some traditional Chinese dances that did not go over too well. Even though it was crazy and for most of it we did not know what was going on we had a great time even though it was a little bizzare but hey that is China