ugh.
I had two fourth grade class this morning. Absolutely terrible. I put one kid up in front of the room for acting up. After a while of him not responding to what I was trying to get him to obviously do, I started to try and take him to the office to see the headmaster and he freaked. He would not let me take him. Lucy ended up scolding him outside the classroom. There goes any sort of remaining authority. Then the fat buddhist kid that always acts up in the back was giving me crap, so I sent him to the front. He used this time in front of the class to dance. Lucy says this kid is crazy, not all in the head. In front of the class she made this motion and this time all the kids started to giggle. WHAT IS WRONG WITH THESE PEOPLE!
After a terrible morning I headed off to the gym to renew my membership for another 6 months and to try and workout...its been ~1 month since I have been to the gym. ugh. Took care of that. I was gonna workout, but it was friggin' cold and the gym had all the windows open again. I still say that's retarded.
Headed back to the house to cool off from my morning classes. Great, I thought, I have 6th grade to deal with in the afternoon and then 35 kindergarteners. Ugh. I got to school and was preparing. Ivy had three of her students at her desk collecting some materials. I was chatting with her for something. She offered me up that one of the boys collecting stuff at her desk was "very stupid". WHAT! You don't talk about your kids like that in front of them. "Oh, that's just for you. He's stupid. Very poor english. He doesn't know what I am saying." Its soooo wrong. But sooooo true. The boy sat their smiling and giggling. (See above sentence written in capitals in the first paragraph)
My 6th grade classes went really good. I was very surprised. I got them to write tons of junk on the board. I don't know why they say they don't know English. Everything was spelled right...for the most part. Hell. I know english and if you have spent anytime reading my journal, you know that I don't speel the bestest.
I was given another surprise at kindergarten. I didnt have my usual Tuesday class like Lynn said I would. Instead I had Suzannah's old Youngling's Class. This kids ranged from 3-4 and there were two brand new 2 year olds in the class. They were all adorable. About three kids pissed their pants and the homeroom teacher had to pull out the hairdryer. This is gonna be a very interesting class.
After that I headed to dance practice! YEAH! I get to wear white jumpsuit pants and crappy black vinyl gloves with the fingers cut off. I put them on, they were too tight, and I burst thru half the seams. Fantastic. The shirts come tomorrow. Part of the dance show entails me being in the bottom of a people pyramid. We were practicing and one of the women was digging her knee into my spine. Ouch. Joy joy joy.
I got really upset with this place down the street that I have given lots of business to. They make good food and its cheap. Yet, for the past few times I have been going I have been noticing the serving that I have been receiving has been much less than the chinese people that pay the exact same amount as me. Today I saw a guy get a load of food and then the chinese woman gave about 6 pieces or so, so I handmotioned to "Come on, don't bullshit me, more" So she added a more real serving and she then charged me an extra yuan. I gave her 5.5RMB and she gave me back 1RMB. I stood there waiting for the rest of the change. She turned around and was like, "You're still here." I was like...I gave you 5.5, the price is 3.5. WTF! Ok. Its not a money issue here. I can pay the extra 1 yuan. But the fact that she would charge me more for less because I am white just pissed me off when I was already in a bad mood. So i started giving her a hassle and I got into a cantonese arguement.The boss lady was conversing with the lady that served me to try and understand what was going on. Then the boss lady was all like, "Aaaah, I understand... I have a solution. I will fix this." She took the food and starting removing peices of meat. NO NO NO NO! What the hell is wrong with you. So, I went in to her money basket, threw the change back in, and took my original amount. "Sit n spin, lady!" I said a couple things and gave them this look of disgust. I took off and I ain't ever going back there again. I was sooooo pissed off. Why I stay in this shithole of a country is beyond me sometimes.
Goodnite.