Jack & The Maggot Pea Cafe
Finally, after hearing about it for a week from some of the other teachers, Yumi and I tried out the western cafe thats new in town. I have to say. Its pretty darn nice and trendy looking. AND it had good food. We showed up and Robert was already there eating. Ha ha. Wow. Apparently its a Taiwanese chain. They had real cheese cake. !!!!!!
Its actually called Jack & The Magic Pea Cafe.
Apparently they have real good coffee but since I hate coffee, I didnt have any.
After that I had a meeting about summer camps at 3pm. Catherine had schedualed me for the Star Hope camp which takes the best of the students involved in the camps and starts to prepare them for the CCTV English Language competition. (The speech competition that I judged at back in Dec/Jan was a preliminary competition for the CCTV one) Basically they narrow it down to one English speaker per chinese province and they compete on National TV for that years first prize.
But this summer camp lasts until August 9th and I was like, Catherine, do you not know that I am gone on August 1st? She was like "Gary told me the end of August..." I was like, "Gary doesn:t know shit, and you should know this by now because you have worked with him for months. I had my contract changed with Amanada and Boss JOhn.....etc.etc". I wasnt being mean, I was just letting her know the facts. And she was like, No Problem. STill do Star Hope and I will figure it out later.
THe meeting was with me, Mark, Bill, Miguel, Will, and Clyde. THese are supposedly the best of the best that BOND has to test and we will practice with them. These kids get to go to class for free. Hardcore. There are 3 sections of this Star Hope program.
1. This summer camp.
2. THe usual weekend classes at Bond
3. THe run up to the competitions that the schools put on for their students.
It was an interesting meeting. Its gonna be interesting.
Afterwards, I went home and figured some stuff out and went to teach Daisy. It went pretty well. Her mom had finished the translations I asked her to do. And we tested to see if I could copy from WORD to DVD Studio Pro. It will work. THankfully. THat shouldn:t be a problem.
I skipped gong fu practice so I could spend some time with Yumi. She is going to Yunnan tomorrow morning at 10am for about 7 days. And I gots to work at 8AM.
Goodnite all you kids.