Guzhen Performance Wednesday Nite - Bad Mood
Well today was ok. I flyed my school this morning. I passed out the most cause all the kids wanted to say hi to me. I spoke with Coco and told her I would be returning next term. She was happy. But when she first saw me, she said her sister's boss wanted to meet me. Too bad. I have decided to stay. Need the Z-VISA. I have a plan for Foshan though....hmmmm.
After that I went to the gym and figured out how to run my iPod through the speaker system. Finally. I then went to the Tailor to pick up my pants that he was supposed to duplicate and have done on Monday. HE HADN'T EVEN STARTED ON THEM AT ALL!!!! WTF! They were sitting on the counter. Then I asked about them, he said tomorrow. I asked about my suit, he said tomorrow, thought they were due today. Thats it, you are not getting paid the full amount. If you tell me they will be done in a week, then have them done in a week. Thats how things work. If you don't make the period, you lose money. Why can't these people get it thru their heads. One thing I miss about the US is customer service....oh do I miss it.
Went home and prepared for my performance tonite. I got some games down.
1. Wordmash - write a big long line of alphabet characters and have kids underline words they see.
2. Acting - like the game on Who's Line is it Anyways, i gave a kid a word and they would act it out for one guesser.
3. Drawing - kids would draw pictures and they would guess what it is
4. Did a quick recap of last nite.
5. I prepared a song for Karaoke - Beatles "She Loves You" and I also prepared to teach the TIME WARP from Rocky Horror Picture Show.
I found out after I planned it all that Toby wanted to come along and play guitar. Well, thats some time killer. We headed out to Guzhen around 7pm.
I went first because Suzannah and Sean were gonna do their thing together. So, I went on for a good 30 minutes and did my stuff. I wasn't too happy about it, the kids weren't participating that well. They wouldn't put theirselves out there. I kept saying, "Dare to be the first!" You chinese always say that, yet you never do it. Hypocrits. Some of it was fun, but I was frustrated thru most of it. Its on video, but I don't want to watch it.
Then Toby went on after me and played and sang Bye Bye Love. It was ok. The kids seem to like Toby for some reason. Which is good. Then Suzannah and Sean came on. I figured, hey, together they should have about an hour prepared since they are logged to work for 30 minutes each, but ha ha...that didn't happen. It was about 825pm when they went on. They were finished in 20 minutes. Peter and I were pissed. Peter was MC-ing tonite. We both spent all this work on our things, yet they come out with nothing planned. And Suzannah being scared of being on camera, speaking on mic, or in front of people on a stage didn't help matters. Get over it and do your job. While Sean was playing a game with the people, Suzannah was all like, "What should we do?" I was all like, "Do your Karaoke you had planned, the chinese will go nuts." She was like all, "I think you should do The Time Warp, they would enjoy that." Yeah, and then you wouldn't be taking care of your responsibility.
So, we had 20 minutes to kill and Toby just wandered onto the stage by accident. And he began blabbering and wasting time. Peter and I were like, "Why would any Chinese want to stand in this cold for this?" He just kept walking around and blabbering with the kids...the kidson stage liked it, but the audience must have been bored.
While he was doing this, Suzannah was trying to think of other things to do. "Do the karaoke you planned on." I said. She was like, "Let's do wheelbarrels." Ugh...Ok, thats a good idea. Kids would like it. But why not Karaoke. "Oh, Do the timewarp."
ugh.
Anywho, Ash showed up near the end. Toby proceeded to run out the 20 minutes with doing nothing. Surprising. Oh well. After it was all over, Toby, Sean, and Suzannah went out with Ash to some Guzhen clubs. Leiana, Peter, me, and the chinese folk headed home. I talked with Lynn about lots of stuff too. I got back here and prepared VISA stuff for Friday and tomorrow.
Now I am here typing this up. But I need to go to bed. I have to go to Macau. goodnite.