Good (and filling) to be the king!

They have this holiday called "Teacher's Day" here, and it's tomorrow.  Closely followed by the Mid Autumn Festival on Monday, which is like Chinese Thanksgiving.  So our school and students have been giving us gifts all week.  I now have more fruit and rice and things than I have any idea what I'll do with.

From the school:  rice, oil, grapes, oranges, pine nuts, milk, goji berries, dried jujube, misc dried fuits jar, and best of all -- dried tree ears!  They're this marvelous mushroom thing that grows on wood so directly translates as a tree ear, haven't been able to tell if there's a real English word for them or not.  If there is, I don't care, "tree ears" is too great a name haha.  You soak the dried ones and then put them in soups and things, it's delicious.  More to come in a planned massive entry about the food here. 
I'm curious about the milk because it was not refridgerated.  So I'm not sure what "milk" means in this case, I'll let you know when I find out.
Outside of this picture is a large box of fresh jujube fruits and a handful of little phone charms from students.  Ay yo yo!  I think I'm going to propose a fruit swap for the teachers in my area, because I will never finish 30 oranges, 3 large bags of grapes, and a box of jujubes because they go bad!

Well, must go to bed.  I have to wake up at 630 every morning for breakfast before my 8am classes!  (I know my parents are rolling their eyes but I've been in college for the majority of my recent life so 630am every day is killing me!)  The classes are going better, but still need a lot of fixing.  I'm teaching my department head's classes tomorrow and she'll be watching so wish me luck!