So my apartment is beginning to pile up with all kinds of birthday goodies. So far I have received tons of cards, an entire cake the size of a China bus steering wheel from the city government office, a box of imported tea from a police officer, a side of smoked pork from my neighbor, an orange sport coat from a junior 3 student, a music box from another junior three student and a knife. Well actually the knife was more of a confiscated gift but i thought I would include it because it is currently sitting in my gift collection pile. The other day I had to confiscate a knife from a student who during break pulled it out of his desk, tucked it into his pocket and mad a mad dash out of the classroom to jump on the back of another student. Need less to say, the student was freaked out when I grabbed him by the hood of his sweatshirt and turned him around and reamed him out in front of his classmates. As of now the knife incident is a little secret between class 123 and me but I plan to take this issue up with a head teacher and hope someone will care. Violence in schools is a huge problem in China as teachers hit students, parents hit students, students hit each other so there is no distinction between play fighting and actually harming one another. I mean who am I to really speak on the issue of violence in schools considering I come from a country where we don't hit students but yet we account for the most cases of school shootings and student rage.
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