Ni shi lian ga ren.
Morning classes were bleh. 4-10 year olds just don't want to learn on a hot summer morning. The second period, no one was paying attention nor participating in things I tried to do. Fine, be stupid. Not that it really matters. All I really am to you guys is a babysitter.
Parents force their kids into schools during the summer so they don't fall in with the young crowd. How is that possible when all kids do is watch TV anyways. They never leave their house really. I have barely ever seen kids playing outside with friends when they are without their parent.
Anywho.
After class, I prepared for the gym and the bank. I went to go to the bank to purchase my Zhengzhou tickets. Its the same procedure as last time, but this time I am putting it all in at once so Jacky the Tix Guy can ship them out to me ASAP. I hopped on a taxi and drove there. When I got to the bank, I realized I had forgotten my money and invoice, i had taken it out when I moved some gym stuff around. AIYA! So, I grabbed that motorbike guy again and went back to my place, got my stuff, and then went back to the bank.
I waited for like 1 minute before I started taking care of my business with the teller. I looked to my right and there was some guy taking care of some business with another teller. Nothing special. Except that he was drinking a beer while he was doing it. Seeing stuff like that kinda messes with your head. I want to do that at National Shitty when I get back to the US.
After that, I got a taxi to the gym. The taxi driver as I got off started trying to say something to me by using his fingers. He never spoke a word. He was pointing to me, and then giving me two fingers and pointing to his seat. He did that a couple of times before I realized he was trying to say that I weighed as much as two people on his bike. Thing was, this guy was much fatter than I am. I blew him off and walked away.
Gym was good. Got lunch.
I had class at 2pm. It was good. I actually enjoyed it. The time actually flies by and I think the kids might actually get something out of this. It is intensive and they are learning new words and alot of the meanings they will need to learn by just watching John and I interact. Its good. We learned today that these kids will not be able to write their own speeches. About 40% of the kids could actually write a sentence. The rest just had words written down that we had gone over about the 3 topics.
We also got 4 new kids today. I tried to tell Jilly not to give us anymore kids because it was messing up our Qi. She was like, "huh?" I told her, "The first day, all the students and us teachers formed a very strong bond which allowed all our Qi to mesh together seamlessly. With introduction of new students, that bond/Qi mesh will no be unbalanced causing our relationship to deteriorate...."
She just walked away. I laughed to myself and John was cracking up too.
I looked at the attendance shit and saw some of the names the kids had. Now, the ones I gave, I thought were funny, but there were some good ones on there. "Might" was one.
Classes went good.
Afterwards I came home and did some more packing and junk. Around 6pm I took my guitars,swords, and erhu over to Yumi's place. I did this all at once. I had one guitar strapped to my back, the erhu slung over it while I carried my big sword in one hand and my guitar case in the other. I don't fault any of the chinese for staring. It was an interesting site to see me driving on a motorbike like that. I would have stared. When I got to Normata, the backpack case strap got stuck on the back of the bike and I almost fell over.
After I dropped off that stuff, I went to Peter's to return and pick up some stuff. We chatted and he was all getting ready to leave by about Thursday. He will pick up his computer tomorrow on wednesday after we get paid our payout. I should be getting 13500RMB. And so should Peter. Peter has also sold the pool table to BOND for about 230RMB. He got it for like 800. We got our use out of it.
After that, I headed home where I went to gong fu practice. Man, did I go hard tonite. I was practicing the wushu stuff in Chang Quan. You can take these wushu forms and break it down into their basic, technical things. I mean, like, first the form was actaully practical and then people made it fancy by throwing in jumps, falls, acrobatics, etc. So, I was trying to practice the jump kicks and everything while also practicing the practical aspects. It was tiring. I was really the only one practicing at all as well. I don't know why these kids are so lazy at this place.
When i walked in the doors when I got home, i saw a gecko scurry across the floor. I was soooo excited! My first gecko that i saw in China. I was like, "WHAT WHAT!" Sell me some car insurance BTICH!
I came home and chatted with my folks on SKYPE. We got some life insurance stuff set up since my old stuff was gonna expire on Aug 19th. Now, I got this new junk. Kool.
I had a weird dream later that nite because one of the options on the insurance plan was this "Terrorism Rider" that dealt with injury or death from a terrorist attack. My dream was I was with the Michigan Snowboard Club (UofM club) and we had set up a trip to Iraq. On my way to a party while I was on a bike, I got shot 2x by a patrolling insurgent. I showed up at the party with two bullet holes in my side while a couple people tried to patch me up, then a drunk guy came by and started singing a song about how I got shot and said, "Praise Allah."
interesting.
Goodnite.