WHOO HOO!!!! BOND IS DONE WITH!
Yes, finally! Last day of teaching!!!! WHERD UP! TAKE THAT, SUCKA!!! Technically, my contract finishes up on August 14th, but my contract states that I have 2 weeks unpaid vacation, which I am using for my Shaolin trip. I got weekends off as well, so..... I AM DONE WITH BOND.
I taught my last class this afternoon! It was great, however, the teaching of the class...i didn't feel very good in it. I had a sickling feeling...nothing bad...just a slightly knot. Maybe it was because of the last class. After it was over, I told John it doesn't feel like I am done.
In the morning, I went over to Normata to see about maybe getting some new stuff for my camera. A new battery and a 1GB memory card. My camera has been giving me these "Memory Card" and "Replace Battery Pack" errors sometimes. Even when the battery is fully charged, I have had it say, "Replace battery pack". I don't know if these issues stem from the age of the battery or the memory card or the camera itself. Hopefully these new items will fix it. I ordered them and they will be in tomorrow at 10AM. sweet.
Afterwards I hit up the gym and had lunch. I got ready for class. Class was...eh. We went over the last speech about Food. We said some basic things. "China has many kinds of food.." "My favourite is..." "We also eat Western food..."
The chinese food we listed was all this good stuff. Then we went on and put Western food up and what did they shout out and think of when they thought of western food? KFC, McDonald's, hamburgers, ice cream, french fries, and coke. Why all the unhealthy stuff? John and I try to have fun when we do this stuff and I tried to convince him to let me put up "Freedom Fries" instead of "french fries" as a joke. He wouldnt let me. But we did get up there this little nugget of joy... "If it is alive, we will eat it." I wanted to put up "We will eat anything with four legs thats not a table." or " We will eat anything with its back to the sun." Those are the sayings northerners have for the Guangdong folk...they will eat anything and everything.
There is a boy in the class that is very naughty and is only there because his parents are important, just like others, but he is very bad. These that are placed because of the parents piss me off because they don't know any english. How did they pass the exam? This kid is a distraction and trouble maker in the class, so on the last day of the week, my last class, and the last 5 minutes of the class, I hauled his ass down to the office. Catherine talked to him and he refused to say anything and just sat there. "I don't care cause my dad is rich." mentality. I told Catherine to tell him that, "You have brought shame and disgrace upon your family name for generations to come. You don't get to come back tomorrow. You don't even get a lousy copy of our home game!" The office was laughing hard. But too bad...Catherine didn't do it. Fudge.
After class we went to Maggot pea for dinner where I got a salad n sandwich. Then I went home to pack more and I got myself a fannypack. Did you know in England "Fanny pack" means something completely different? "Bumbag" is what they call fannypacks. Fanny is slang for woman's hoo-haa.
I spoke to my dad and my Aunt Sharron in Moracco via SKYPE and that was kool. I also got my stuff packed for Shaolin. Its frustrating and nerve racking because I need to take money to pay for the training and I pay by the day and taking out money from the back account in the US ain't the best system if I want to save money. I also don't have a chinese bank account because I never had enuff money to put in one. Now I do, so I have to hide my cash everywhere and hope my gong fu can defeat any theives.
Spoke online with Chad and Yumi. Chad gave me some more schools to check out. He told me about Shi De Cheng who was monk Shi Xing Wei's sifu....who was the monk that I met in Las Vegas. So I emailed him and told him I would stop by and I attached a copy of the foto of Shi XingWei and I. I should go have that developed today.
After that, I met Ash, Irish John, John Irish, Ben, Will and Miguel at the beer gardens. It rained a bit.
It was a fun nite. Well, goodnite. I need to pack more stuff tomorrow. Take care!