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Afternoons are getting more exciting at Guan Ai School. Last semester, teachers brought up the idea of letting students spend part of their afternoon on extracurricular activities like arts and crafts or games. Since Guan Ai is a boarding school, it needs to keep students occupied for about 15 hours a day but focusing just on textbook teaching or the regular curriculum is tedious for students and teachers. Thus, RCEF has helped the teachers set up a new afternoon schedule for extracurricular activities. The teachers came up with a total of 10 classes and students signed up for 2 each. Today was the first day. In Cooking class, Teacher Sun Huiguo (孙会果）taught her students how to peel and cut potatoes into thin strips (土豆丝）, a common ingredient in Chinese dishes. Potato is a wildly popular food among kids here (probably kids all over the world actually!) and the students seemed to really enjoy it. One fourth grader told me she really wanted to take this class because her parents often left her at home alone and she wanted to learn how to cook for herself. In the school library, Teacher Wang Yanzhen (王艳珍) read aloud to an attentive group of first through third graders in her Storytelling Class. The Arts & Crafts group started a project cutting out feathers to make peacocks and RCEF Teaching Fellows Kiel Harell and Ron Sung led an English Corner and Chinese Yo-Yo class respectively. Tomorrow will be Aerobics, Community Service, Soccer, Theater, and School Newspaper!