Experiments

 Last night for dinner head chef Tom tried an experiment. The experiment was leaving the students in charge of dinner. Tom picked a head chef and made the head chef organize everything in the kitchen, even the design of the food on the plate. The experiment was a major success with one slip up; the students had forgotten to turn the kitchen hoods on making the restaurant quite smokey. The food tasted great though. In this picture we have sous-chef Jason.

 This is Shine, she told a story about herself at the opening of the English Festival last night. She was amazing, unfortunately she did not win the first prize for her category. The English Festival is three nights of performances by students in English. This is the first year for the English Festival here.

 I have no idea who this guy is, but this little butt hole argued with me and a couple of the other volunteers for not allowing him to leave. Every GFC student is required to attend one of the three nights of the English festival. Some students snuck out throughout the performances, but eventually the volunteers started standing by the doors stopping the students from leaving. This picture was taken right after we rejected this student's departure from the auditorium.

 I feel bad for posting this picture, but I felt like I can't just events that are all good and proper. The girl here is Tiffany, she was in the story reading category. Students here choose and memorize stories to perform. This is Tiffany struggling to remember her story. She did end up winning 3rd place in her category.

Here is Rain, Ben, and Lincoln. Rain and Lincoln were the MCs tonight. Ben helped them practice their speeches before this night. The students did an absolutely amazing job; these guys were better than the majority of MC's whose native language is English. They had humor in their speeches and they cooperated with each other so well. What was the really impressive was that these students practiced every single day for the past week; their motivation and work ethic is incredible.