A very manly Women's Day
Trip Start
Feb 19, 2010
1
21
58
Trip End
Feb 21, 2011
Daqing, Heilongjiang, China
Tuesday, March 9, 2010
I don't have as many weekend classes as others, but I had a bunch of other things to do like two demo classes, where you sit in this big room with tons of windows and teach a shorter, 40-minute "demo" class to kids who we're trying to convince to sign up for classes. The parents sit in the back and observe and we hope that they like us enough to pay for the full course. I taught two Small Star demo classes, which is 3-6 year olds, ish. My first class was 5-6 year olds, the second was like 3-5s, one kid was SO tiny, but they all managed to learn four colors, so it was awesome! And the kids and parents all seemed to like me a lot so I hope most of them sign up for the class. I start teaching my first Small Star class this week, and next week I'll have TWO SS's! The little kids are so fun.
I also taught my fabulous High Flyer class that I'd done last weekend too, and they were just as fun as before. I got a new girl in there too, named Jane! They were all super cute and we had an impromptu dance party out of nowhere for a few seconds, I love those kids. Also taught both of Leo's old Trail Blazer classes (12-15 year olds), who I was nervous about but they liked me and we had fun! We played a game in the second one, but there are 8 boys and 3 girls, so I had to make two boys join the girls team and of course they objected very strongly. I tried to let the girls decide which boys they wanted but they didn't want ANY of them, haha. So the two I grabbed decided to sabotage the girls team, it was ridic.
I did really well on everything I think, and the kids all seem to like me! Biggest problem I have isn't discipline or figuring out what to plan, it's just I talk SUPER FAST, haha. They asked me some questions, we goofed off but practiced stuff like past tense and learned about Japan and it was fun. I love my classes and I'm getting more confident every time I teach them.
After the Sunday classes, I'm trying to think. We might have played a bit of MW2? We play that a lot haha. But then we all went out for food at the Japanese place then out to the Orange Bar. This guy Dave from another school is leaving to go around Thailand etc for like 3 months then moving to southern China, so it was a big goodbye party for him on our side of town. We went to the Orange Bar, then to the dance club CoCo's, then back to the OB. I met two new Americans named Shanto and Hannah, they're a married couple from New York, they seem really nice and cool, so that was fun! We chatted and it was crazy hearing an American accent again, haha. There were some other single girls at the party too, unlike most of the girls who are married/in relationships, and the few of us all sang some Single Ladies and Lady Gaga and danced and it was fab. Busted out some Electric Slide too, oh yeah!
Yesterday was Women's Day! And of course it was celebrated in the typical fashion, by killing bitches in Modern Warfare 2, haha. Went out for lunch/a bit of shopping with Kev, then went with Rob and Dave to Leo's new place, where we hung out and watched part of a movie then tried to hook up two xboxes so we could do 8 player MW2. But apparently it is impossible to do. Just doesn't work that way. Which is dumb. So we tried some Halo 3, which I hadn't played in AGES, and I've only done the co-op campaign. But I wound up kicking ASS anyway. We did 8-player system link in that, just played two games, and the boys got annoyed because they haven't played that game much, and I know how a couple of the buttons work, so I think the second game I won with 25 kills and the closest to that was Leo with 11. Ownage. And I didn't even have a sword! That would've been even worse, haha. Though I did have a Ghost, and that ruled.
So we quickly returned to MW2 haha. We did 4 player split screen, on my tv it was me, Eric, Dave, and the other Dave from the other side, who's leaving soon. He was new but we all wound up doing pretty well and it was a blast! Had a few tasty beers and hung out with my boys. They all teased me because it was Women's Day, and somebody kicked over a beer and an ashtray and they were teasing me with stuff like "you're lucky it's Women's Day or you'd be cleaning this up!" Gotta love the boys! Went out for pizza afterward, also fun times, then came home and went to bed pretty early. Most of the boys work on Tuesday so we didn't stay out late last night like we did on Sunday, which is good because I managed to avoid a hangover yesterday morning, miraculously, since I got home at 330am or something ridiculous on Sunday night/Monday morning, haha. Oh the life of an expat.
Speaking of expat life, time to go be touristy and go ice skating on the lake! It's warming up a little (it was like 18 yesterday and it's a high of 29 today, it's goddamn balmy out!) so we want to get in lots of skating before the lake melts! Then I'm helping Kev move, because he figured out that Leo's old apartment sucks and he wants to go back to his old one, haha. Should be funsies!
