Four kids chose to do horse stance today.
Today was an interesting day. Today is the day where my first class is at 10:10AM. Sweet. I got up real early today as well to get some things done and plan for the lessons. John showed up at the big House around 9AM. He spent 10 hours on the train yesterday coming home from Hunan with Jolene. He neeeded a place to crash because another person has already moved into his old place. I told him that he is more than welcome to crash in Clyde's old room. Too bad its locked. He basically sat down and fell asleep on the couch after he told me of his time in Hunan. He only got 1.5 hours of sleep. Icky. Sounds like my plane ride to Hong Kong.
I headed to class. It was ok. It was third graders. They weren't very good today. They seem to have forgotten all their english of the few weeks that they had off. Fantastic! Also, the little boy with cauliflowering of his ears was shooting paper wads with his ruler with his 2 friends that sat next to him. I scolded him a couple times as well as my enforcer. Then one of his friends shot a paper wad with more strength and effort than he planned to. It whizzed by my head I turned quickly around, and there he sat with his hands covering his mouth. So I grabbed Cauliflower Ears and Hands Over Mouth. Then kids sitting around him pointed out the third kid. Apparently he shot it, but the hands over mouth kid was in on it as well. So i grabbed all three, I put them in front of the class and made them all do the horse stance until class was done. There was about 10 minutes left. After about 1 minute they were jiggling around trying to relieve the pain. "Hey kids, you know if you squirm or try to relax the position, it just hurts more." There were up there for a while that I forgot about them. They were leaning over and I kept going over there sometimes and fixing their position.
Lunch was good cause I worked on finishing up most of the journals. Then went back to class. I had the 5th graders this time. These classes went really good. The 2nd class was better except in the beginning.
After the eye lessons were done, I noticed one of the "huskier" girls had her head in her arms. When Ivy, the enforcer, walked in, i motioned to the girl. Ivy went over and the girl was crying. She said some things that implicated the person in front of her. Then Ivy said something else and all the kids sitting around her pointed out another kid all at once. Damn! You kids are sure quick to rat your fellow comrades out aren't you. I am super glad none of you kids are my friends or comrades. I couldn't trust you with anything. Thanks Chairman Mao. You did wonders for this country. While Ivy had her back turned and scolding the boys, another boy decided to pull out a single barrel aimed at Ivy. I saw this and scolded him and made him do the horse stance up in front of the class. After 5 minutes, Ivy had him come back to her and explain what happened. I went and told Ivy what happened and he stood back there for a while really sad and red in the eyes. He was upset the whole class. He will get over it.
The classes actually went really good, except for those parts. Got them speaking alot and telling me how their chinese new year was. It was very good. It was tuff but I got them to do it.
After class was over I had dance class at 445pm. I got there at 5pm and they were just starting up. And it was still the same. Then the dance instructor showed up at 6pm and spent an hour with us showing the intro and the moves. She also showed me the part that has the Muay Thai Kickboxing in it. Very terrible. I can't believe I am doing this. Well, the school is nice to me, so I will help them out by giving them face. Besides, I get something I can laff at.
After that I went and grabbed some food at McDonald's (hangs head). I know. I shouldn't but, ugh...i wanted to. One of the girls from Lion Dance was behind the counter and she was happy to see me. "Fei Long!" So I chose her line. Pretty decent. Very nice. She gave me extra big pop for free....OOOOOO! she likes me. ;-)
I came back here and Moses and Nick were watching Deer Hunter. It was in the middle. Why do I always catch it in the middle. Oh well.