I had mixed feeling about the last lesson. I am glad it’s finished, so I don’t need to spend my weekend time preparing for the class any more. It is a big relief for me, given that I do get pretty busy over the weekend time. On the other hand, I felt that I probably will miss the evenings that I spent in this college, the students, the moments standing there talking and sharing some fantastic experience with those who are interested, and teaching Chinese, the language which I am very proud of.

One of my student went to China and got back already. I didn’t see her but had a chat with her team mate who is my supervisor’s oldest son and went to China for the same occasion. The dragon boat team actually won the second place in the race of “绍江杯”（Shaojiang Cup), which was pretty impressive performance. He told me that my student taught other dragon boat team players how to say “hello”, “Thanks” and order a bottle of “beer” in Mandarin. He was amazed. Now he can even say those words himself. Isn’t this something that would make a teacher feel satisfied?

However, he also mentioned about the terrible translation in China which can be seen everywhere. Lots of translation can not be understood or gave them a big laugh. But he liked the scene that an old lady selling balloons and kids were so happy to see all the colorful balloons flying away to the sky. That was a beautiful moment to him.

Another student in the class has already booked the trip to China in September. I showed her how the Great Wall spreads out in different provinces and she said their second day will be going there to have a look themselves. She looked very excited!

So last class was quite casual. I asked people to think of the sentences that they wanted to learn the most and bring them up here. We told a football CEO how to ask “what’s the score” and how to say “3:3″; We taught a girl how to say “I have asthma” and what’s the word for “medication”; We gave a young guy, who never hid his intention of chasing young Asian girls, some idea about how to say “you are very pretty”; we also showed people how to ask to get a card with hotel’s address and contact details in Mandarin; and how to recognize the characters of “Gents”（男） & “Ladies”（女）……It was a two hours class full of information and questions. After I announced the class is dismissed, some of my students came over and said “thank you” as the farewell. I was very touched.

I am not sure if they could cope in China. From what I know, what they had mastered is way not enough to do so, but they learned something. They are now more confident, and they told me that they know the rules, know how to pronounce the words, organize the sentence, and if something comes up, they can find the rest of it from the dictionary, and they will be able to speak them out. I guess this is what we have been wanting to achieve via this course.

Good luck everybody, with your future Chinese adventure!!~:-)