Well that and reading 7 chapters of Game of Thrones during a compulsory staff meeting I only understood the occasional word of (*^o^*)
I have made all 400 of my JHS students little ‘English passports’ of which they receive ‘visa’s’ for going out of their way to communicate with me in English 英語, for example writing me a letter which they can now ‘post’ to me!!
Hmmm I may have to steal your mailbox idea and adapt it for high school somehow, that looks really cool!