last week's Halloween party

My students are displaying their Chinese Socialist tendencies through their mask-making.

Their art tells me: "I want to be creative and make a cool mask, but I don't want to stand out from my peers. If we all make the same mask, no one with accuse us of being radical or of challenging the system."

Who doesn't love a mummy giving peace signs?

I'm amazed. With minimum resources and little money all my students managed to make or print out on the web interesting and creative masks our Halloween party. Do you notice the Obama mask in the front? (by the way, most Chinese are supportive of Obama's win.)

Awesome masks! notice Jack and Helen all cuddly in the front row? Usually students who are dating are forbidden to display public affection, and are restricted to even sit next to one another in class. But in my class, my students know they can get away with a little cuddle-cuddle and not be whipped into subordination.

Do you notice my Shakespeare poem on the board. We learned about witches and cauldrons full of 'eye of newt and toe of frog/wool of bat and tongue of dog!'

Everyone recited 'double double, toil and trouble!' and I taught them how to cackle like witches.

I scared quite a few students with my fangs and my grunts and interpretation of a mad monkey. seriously, there were girls shrieking and covering their faces.