Phil and Red's Excellent Adventure

I woke up actually early to work on getting those subtitles done for the DVD. I put a bunch in only to have DVDSP3 crash on me after I put them in and before I saved the progress. WTF! UGH! Why is the subtitle editor on this thing sooo stupid! So, after wasting time on that I prepared for class.
I talked to Coco about the fone call last nite. I tried to explain what I was saying to her and after I said it again, her response, "Yes." I guess she just doesn't understand.
I had my 5th graders this morning. They were all right except one thing. One of the smart girls in the second class said in front of the whole class, "You is very fat!" So, after a dramatic pause, I dragged her to the front for two reasons: 1. She insulted me. 2. If you are gonna insult me, do it right. "You are..."
During lunch, I spent my time entering subtitles. This subtitle thing has sure turned out to be a huge irritation and pain in the butt.
Once back at school, I parked my bike and immediately about 4 kids rushed over to say Hello and then for some odd reason they found my bike, which they have seen thousands of, to be quite amazing, they said, "WHAAA!", and they started flipping all the gear switches. "SCRAM!" They scattered. Man, I don't know what it is about these kids. Anytime I do anything and I mean anything, they all go, "WHAAAA!" Today, inbetween my 5th grade classes, I was eating an orange. As I was peeling it, two little kids in the office were walking by and were utterly amazed, "WHAAAA!"
Whenever I am wearing my zipper sweatshirt and take it off during class because it gets hot, I hear, "WHAAA!!!" And yes, I am wearing a regular shirt.
I walk by kids that aren't paying attention and they turn and see me and go, "WHAAA!!!"
Why do they do that?
So, after telling those kids to scram, I had my 2 horrendous 6th grade classes. Today was an odd day. The first lesson, the students were really indifferent like they usually are. There wasn't much activity and when I tried to get activity, the kids were resistant as usual. The most memorable thing from that class was the fact that whenever the audio tape, I, or the students read, "We were fishing!" all the kids would bust out laughing.
Am I missing something? Does the phrase, "We were fishing!" sound like a chinese phrase meaning, "Save the killer robots"? I don't know. Of course, since it got students involved I tried to milk it. After about 5 minutes of that crap I finally asked May why they heck they were laughing. Apparently they were laughing because one of the student's father sells fish at the supermarket. I then began to notice whenever they laughed, he wasn't. They were laughing at him, so I plugged some of the bad kids' ears with M-80s, lit them, and ran. FIRE IN THE HOLE!
The second class, the ones that are usually pretty bad where great today. Lots of activity with them. I got to make them laugh a lot, which helps sooo much. If they are laughing then they will 90% of the time actually pay attention. I was asking students around the room at random "Where were you yesterday?" with the location cue cards that we have. Whenever a chinese kid is picked, he/she looks around to those sitting next to him/her a couple times, then looks at my pointer, and realizes that maybe he/she is the one chosen. Then they do this thing that only chinese kids can do... (I think I mentioned this in a previous entry) they point at their face with a curled index finger, look at me with big eyes, a look of question on their face, and their mouth is hanging open because they are saying, "Ngoh?" (that means "me/I" in Guangdonghua). Its a funny thing to see. One of my kids did it, so I impersonated it, and I can do it pretty good, and that sent about 75% of the class into a hysterical laughing fit. Now, I don't know if its because they found it funny, or they were laughing at my use of Guangdonghua or what, but I don't care, becuase it got them involved afterwards.
They were participating in anything I did. It was great. The class was wonderful.
I then hit up Kindergarten afterwards. It was the 12 Kid Older class, previously the 10 Kid Spaz Class from last sememster, but this semester they are much more well behaved because I don't have those tumors in the class anymore. I realized that I must have left my cards at the #1 Middle School during my lesson with Daisy and Violet over the weekend. I called Lynn to see if she could bring them ,but no one ever turned them in...Uh oh. Crap. So I told her to bring some others from the office. The class went good. Continued teaching emotions, Happy, Sad, Excited, Angry, Tired, Love.
Today was a very rainy day. It poured a few times for a span of a couple minutes. Luckily whenever I went out in the open it would hold up and I didnt get very wet. I wanted to go to Lion Dancing, but it was pouring at the time of practice and I didnt want to bother getting soaked. So, I continued to enter subtitles. Spent pretty much from 630-930pm entering the rest of the News Story subtitles in. Finally finished. When completed I was able to get Amy's help for a couple other subtitles.
What a pain.
But the good news is that after finishing up the subtitles, I completed what I think is the final version. Got all the music loaded and I checked all the links, now I need to burn it and check it.
Coco called me around this time. She was like, "Hello Phil!" in her own variation of English. Its fun to listen to...its got a nice rythm to it. Its different than all the other English teachers. I like the way she talks. Even though sometimes I have no clue what she is saying. She called me up and said, "I have a friend in Nanhai (by Foshan) and they want you to go there to teach. Can you? I was like...well, my contract is up in August. She was all like, "Ooooh." in that disappointing tone. I was like why? She said, they got your info from my sister and they want you to teach there now. I am listening to this and I am like, "What? I am in contract to teach at your school. Do you not want me teaching at De Xing anymore?"
.....(a few seconds of silence)..."Yes."
Excuse me? I started to laugh. Then Coco said, "Stop laughing. Why are you laughing."
So I explained it again to make sure she understood exactly what I was saying.
"Do you not want me to teach anymore at De Xing?"
-"Yes".
UGH! either she doesn't want me to teach there anymore or she just doesn't understand. I am going for understanding. But I don't know. I will check tomorrow.
The DVD is burning right now. For those of you that want a copy. Contact me and we will trade info on its shipping. I need to go to bed. Tired.