December 2nd was the final teaching day after a 12 week course with Class 06. After working hard at finishing their assignments, and putting together a presentation for the head of the department, the class, with fellow teachers Hong Rongman and Zeng Yu Lin, invited me out for dinner. Above a teeny clip of the dinner table. Afterwards we all went to a karaoke bar, of which I fortunately do not have any clip, as my first experience at singing along with a bad cover version of Madonnas’ “Like a Virgin” should not be recorded for history. It was bad. I did, however, very much enjoy watching the students sing and dance…some of them have truly great voices. It was the first time I had been to a karaoke club, and I found it quite disarming. Their style of singing ranged from shyly singing along to outrageous play-acting, making believe that you yourself are the star. It all seems so innocent and sweet.