Stillehto wearing pigs.
Today. Well today was a pretty lame day. Nothing really going on.
However, the evening was where it was special. At 5pm, Big Boss Man John asked all the Xiaolan teachers to meet up and then go veiw the new Bond Quarters that they purchased. Its like a small school. 16 classrooms and a big space for other things. It was actually quite nice. Its like the Shiqi place only bigger. It was still in the process of fixing up. And, surprisingly, an English school couldn`t get the slogans on the banners that it was hanging correct. We all had some good laughs at the things said on the banners. For one, the name of the school, Bond Language Institute was screwed up on the building itself. It said "Bondlanguage Institute". Other banners contained these luscious tidbits. "`Silent` and `Listen` are spelled with the Same letters" - nothing really wrong there except the capital S, but i found it cute because I never thought of that. Peter came up with some others, Enlist and Tinsel. I was like Satan and Santa have the same letters.
"A great oaks from a little seeds grow" - got some Yoda-speak in there.
"A Warm Welcome to Our Studentsto Take Bond Examsof English" - this was just messy with a straight from chinese translation and misplacing of letters.
"More haste, less speed" - um....huh?
"We forge ahead in the world and the future with Bond." - tooting your own horn.
Still just amazing that an english school couldn:t get it right.
There were a couple others too that they didn`t fully unravel either because of the goofs. We were at the site for about 15 minutes before Boss John showed up. While a few of us stood around and chatted, some of the ENglish folk started playing cricket with a ping pong ball and a broken stick. The english man and irish man amongst our chat group started ripping on the sport. THey were like, "you guys understand this?" We were like, "No, we`re American. We like our sports to make sense."
THere were still construction workers standing around doing their jobs when they weren`t staring at us. What I found really odd was that the workers were staring at us instead of the chinese midget. I was like, you stare at things different from you, why aren`t you staring at the midget? And then what creeped me out even more was that the midget was staring at us! I was like whoa! I guess people infected with white skin and blues eyes are a better sight than Oompa Loompas.
When Big Boss John finally showed up, he saw us all laughing at the banners and I think he looked pissed off more from the fact that we were making him lose face than the actual fact that the print shop is really the ones to blame for the mistakes. But I mean, come on, he didn`t check the banners before they were finally printed out. I would have totally done that consider the fact that the chinese have a horrible time in spelling english. And they are too arogant to ask for a foreigner`s help. Sad really. But it gives us a good chuckle.
Mark Lee was like, "To get a pig to wear stilheto heals is as tough a job to get chinese to spell properly." - or something along those lines.
Then John came over to give his speech and tell us what is going on with the place. It was actually quite enjoyable. For 15 minutes he was saying stuff and we were all cracking jokes and John was able to go along with them. Surprisingly fun. And Bill...omg Bill was friggin` hilarious. This is the 65 year old Aussie thats like Bruce Banner..."Don`t make me angry...you wont like me when I`m angry." But he was just dropping laugh bombs all over the place.
When John talked about the teacher`s lounge, he was like, we need couches for having sex on. Along with the beer and other fun things. He said, he wants his grandson to have a good time when he comes around and Mark Lee was like, He knows a catholic priest?
It ruled.
After that viewing we headed off to dinner. Dinner was good. Most of the teachers sat at one table while the chinese staff and a few other teachers sat at the other. It was kinda wierd though, John kept looking at our table with inquisitive eyes. Like he was searching for Judas or something. It was weird. Very uncomfortable. Maybe it was because we were laughing and chatting and he thought it could be about him. Some of it was, but nothing bad.
After that, Miguel, John Irish, Glenn, and I went to the beer gardens for about an hour and that was bout it. Goodnite.