Teacher's Conference and the Chocolate Factory!

It's been a long week and half! This post is pretty late coming. Everything in this post was from October 9th-11th! On the 9th, we had a Teacher's Conference 2 hours away in another district of Shanghai. It's only a 45 minute drive, but by train it's much slower. It is cheaper by train though! Probably the difference of 100 or so rmb. Please enjoy my experience at the conference! We had a few sessions to attend, but outside of that it was fun filled with fruit decorating, scavenger hunts, and a wild after party! Here are some pictures from my day! Our theme was Light Up! Light up Shanghai!!

We all had groups for our hunts, this was mine We had to take a picture on Daxue Rd. Here is the Pho shop! 

I ended the day going to the after party and danced my heart out until it was time to return home with one of my coworkers! She and I took a cab back to our area and split ways. 

A few days later, October 11th, I had previously signed up for Teacher Events (TRT, still not sure what the R stands for!)  I got accepted into one! I got to go to Zotter's Chocolate Factory in Yangpu District in Shanghai! It was so cool and very chocolately. I feel like I overdosed on chocolate. You could say this post took an extra 7 days to do because it took everything in my power to not nearly puke at that thought of more chocolate. It's all good though. 

Please note, this is a picture of underwear. Supposedly, after doing this factory tour, some people took off their underwear because it didn't fit anymore. Ha! 

Neat spoons you get to use and keep during the tour! I still have mine!

Raw cacao

Ingredients offered for to put in the chocolate!

"Fine Bitter" 60% Dark Chocolate! (My Favorite type!)

I made my own chocolate: 80% Dark Chocolate, 50% Milk Chocolate, and Coffee Chocolate. With Raisins, sesame seeds, and extra chocolate bits with all the flavors I used, just on opposite sides. I call it: Yin Yang Yong. 

The Mixing Bar! Where they made our chocolate!

Below are a ton of chocolates we tried!! I stopped trying them after some point because chocolate overdose!!

Below are really amazing drinking chocolates! They had: cinnamon banana, chili &chocolate, green tea and sesame (really yummy), ginger coconut, and one other I can't remember ;-;. 

The end product of Yin, Yang, and Yong :P 

The outside of the theatre, pretty! 

One of my new classes had a kid named Dusty! Made me happy!

I made some curry to remind me of home and Dustin! 

A very nice plate of sushi my friend Kelly ordered! 

There is a lot of oily food in Shanghai, I've taken to eaten a few salads here and there lol. 

Just wanted to wrap up this post, my probation period ends on October 20th! Only 2 days from now! This week is super busy between our road show event (student retention and promotion) and my end of probation. Next week we are doing Halloween parties for our students! I will show off pictures if I manage to take some! At the end of the month, I've planned a Halloween trip to Disneyland Shanghai with my friend from my onboarding group! My first time to a Disney park!! I can't wait~! More soon!