First Day of Teaching

So i woke up yet again after a restless sleep, excited to start my first day. I was unsure of when first class even started so I went down to the English office where they told me I was pretty early and that first class was not until 8:40.
I prepared all the stuff I wanted to show my kids for the first lesson. Before I left I bought a whole bunch of pictures of Canada: a Canada goose, a beaver, a mountie, a picture of the parliament buildings, some people playing hockey and a mini-stick and ball.
I walked into my first class, which was a grade 5 class with Nemo as my co-teacher. "Good morning everyone!" they responded in unison, "Good morning teacher!" I couldn't help but smile. I wrote on the board my name and first got them to pronounce it properly. Originally, I thought they would have trouble with the R in it but they all seemed to say it well enough. I then got them to guess my age and what country I was from. They guessed right within 15 seconds (besides one kid in every class who yelled out 100!)
I started pulling out pictures. First the goose. "What animal is this?"
"A Chicken?" "A Duck?" "A Goose?" apparently they do have geese in China.
The next one ought to freak them out. I pulled out the picture of the beaver and everyone had no idea what it was. The best I got was a "fat mouse!"I taught them the name and told them that it ate trees. They are so receptive and excited about everything.
I then pulled out the mini-stick and the class went bananas! They might have thought it was a beating stick of some sort and I was about to go chairman Mao on their ass but I explained and took the ball and shot it against the wall.
"Hockey!"
"Oooooohh!"
hilarious.
After I introduced myself I started asking them to stand up and say their names and what they like to play. Some of their names were great. I have about 3 Coco's between all my classes, 3 Leelees, a girl named Cori (they had a laugh at that) and one girl named Poetry. Incidentally, Cori sits beside Cindy, which is my moms name and in my second class I have two girls in the front row named Alexis and Carley. Its funny when they are named after my friends and i'm looking forward to yelling "NO, Cindy that is wrong!" sorry mom.
Next, I decided to have some fun and taught all my classes three things. First was high-five. I had tried out high-five on one of the children in the hall before class and he looked terrified and thought I was going to slap him across the face. As much as I enjoy slapping small folk, this lack of high-five was not going to fly.
The next thing I taught them was props. I wrote on the board P-R-O-P-S and they looked at the word very confusingly. They actually caught on really quick, and soon enough I had a class full of gangsters eager to props me and give me high-five. great success.
The last thing I taught them was a throwback to my elementary school days. Hands on top! That means stop! I thought hey, might as well bring this to china. Maybe I will start a trend. They seemed to love it and after I let them talk for a little bit I yelled "HANDS ON TOP!" and bang: instant response. instant class attention. I am going to enjoy this.
By far the best part of my day was teaching my last class, 5D. This is the class with Cindy and Cori in it. I was asking them all If they played music and If they liked to sing, then I asked If they knew how to sing any english songs. Two boys in the back eagerly raised their hands and jumped up and down wanting to show me. I was not prepared for what ensued. The two boys went to the front of the class and started singing Beat it by Michael Jackson in perfect unison. They knew all the words. I was laughing my ass off. To top it off at the end one of the boys started dancing, he did the kick and the hand thing and all that crazy stuff MJ does. I asked him If he could do the moonwalk and he did it perfectly. I couldn't believe what I was witnessing. Did that actually just happen?
They bell rang and they all swarmed me. Some asked for my signature, or my e-mail address, or phone number. Apparently, its common for a teacher to give their personal information to students here. It was all so cute. One little girl even came up and handed me a little candy.
I finished the day smiling and headed back to my room. I'm going to enjoy this job.