Bond will be Bond.
Today started fine. My morning class went ok. Just did the usual. Its frustrating though when the first lesson is pretty much spent just waiting for most of the students to arrive. Why can't you people be on time? I asked Mountain, "Why are they so late for their classes? They are wasting their money. Not like these classes are really gonna help them..." and Mountain responded, "They are chinese. They are always late." I was like, "Hey, you said it!" Giggle.
Afterwards, I had a couple hours to spend on doing some housework. So I did. And I did some packing as well. I had a meeting at 1230pm for the Hope Star Camp that we are starting on Wednesday. So I shipped off the wedding DVDs to Ben at 12pm and headed out.
I was the last one there and I was 5 minutes early...thats what I like to see. People on time. Mark told everyone to get some drinks because he wouldn't give us the bad news until after we had something to drink. Great! Can't wait. I ordered a Corona. I was like sweet. However, they brought me a lemon instead of a lime so i gave them the lemon back and asked for a lime. Asking incorporated, some words, the pointing at of a lime inside the water jar at the table, and telling the waitress not to take the water jar off the table. I got the lime. Why is it so hard?
So, Mark began telling us this. Apparently Big Boss Jane/John had decided to change the layout that we were told about last week. She apparently changed her mind after we had our meeting which she didn't attend. Did she bother to tell us? No, she told Gary at some unknown time, and of course, that jackass didn't bother to let Mark know until 40 minutes before our meeting.
Basically, the change has taken an English Camp from something different and maybe very effective and is turning it into a normal English Camp, which I hate to say...is pretty friggin' pointless. I hate to say it because I know my efforts and abilities are not being used or appreciated. But hell, what do you expect from 4-9 year olds. More than half of these kids will never remember me.
So, we spent about 1.5 hours trying to understand wtf was going on and how we would deal with it. Classes won't start until July 25th now, however, on Thursday and Friday we need to give out Oral Exams that last about 5 minutes and we use that to cut kids from 60 to 30 for each class. There will be two classes, A and B. A will get to study for free, B will have to pay. I said, "I will only participate in this if we can get written word from all the students' parents saying 'We will not beat our kids for not passing.'"
After that meeting was over, I grabbed some ice cream from McDonald's and headed home. I went to the gym today. It was good.
I had gong fu practice tonite and it went really well. My leg muscles didnt' get sore or tired from doing form work..and I was going pretty hard. Sifu nor his daughter were there so I didn't learn anything new.
I headed home. Time for sleep.
One thing that confuses me though, with this heat, and all the exercise, and not eating too much, you would think I would be losing weight. Well...I'm not. I actually think I am gaining some tummy. I can't figure it out. I don't know if its this weather or what, but its really disheartening.
Goodnite.