Wow! A day without my chinese teacher can do so much to change how we feel about her! We had a nasty just graduated relieve teacher.When she first spoke, she spoke english. We taunt her, asking her if she knows how to speak chinese, then she says sarcastically," Wo hui shuo hua yu, dan shi jin tian de nian qing ren hen "KANTAN", shuo donno how to speak chinese, so i might as well give ALL my instructions to you in english." Then we were like," Lao Shi, ru guo ni bu he wo men lian xi, wo men zhen me hui jiang hua yu ne? Suo yi cong xian zai qi, jiu shuo hua wen ba!" After that argument, she made us do a composition within 40 mins or so, then when some of us asked her how to write some words, she said it like she was english educated, then when she spoke english a few minutes before, it sounded as if she was chinese educated... It sounded so funny. I then told Pandora she had a wide range of chinese vocab, bet doesn't know how to teach, then she said, with her standard, she could only teach in Nursary... hahaz, lolz! Now, after having this "weird" relieve teacher, i find Xu Lao Shi so fantastic; the BEST chinese teacher ever!!!:-) ZJ