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PICTURES OF CUTE CHINESE KIDS!!!1!

Did that grab your attention?

Here are some photos of my first graders. Yeah, yeah, they’re cute or whatever. But we all know better — just because a kid is cute doesn’t mean he or she is an angel.

Sidenote: After my first week of teaching these demon children — 16 classes of them to be exact — my contact teacher at Luoling could see I was stressed. So she tried to relieve me. “They are very naughty, but at least they are cute,” she said.

As if that’s any consolation.

Class 8, Section 1. My favorite in this class is Bobby — he's sitting in the front. The collective amount of cuteness in this class outweighs that of all the other 15 classes.

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How’s this for a mouthful?: The name of my school

Shenzhen Luoling Foreign Language Experimental School. (Pinyin: Shenzhen Shi Luoling Waiyu Shiyan Xuexiao; Characters: 深圳市落铃外语试验学校). Or Luoling for short.

It’s a primary school in Shenzhen’s Luohu district. I teach 10 fourth-grade and 5 third-grade classes here.

Why “experimental”? I’ve been told tacking on the word “experimental” to the name is a way for Chinese schools establish themselves as credible institutions.

Luoling’s website can be found here.