So today was my first teaching class. We were doing an oral lesson on Halloween for some employees of Kelloggs. The day did not start well as there was no hot water this morning to wash my hair and I managed to get the wrong bus not once but twice on my way to the school... I was a little bit late which I was annoyed at as I detest other people being late and always try to be nice and early myself.
However the lesson went well in the end! We made pumpkin lanterns which had a few interesting moments. The pumpkins supplied were very small and hard so several of the knives were broken. The Chinese were not dismayed however and happily hacked away with scissors. One group put their candle in the pumpkin and tried to light it inside using a wad of tissue. This didn't work so they tried using newspaper. They used rather a lot and it immediately went up in flames. The Chinese guy squawked a bit and dropped it onto some more newspaper. I, at this point, was checking out where the ermegency exit was. However he rallied and squashed some more newspaper on top which had the effect of snuffing it out and calm was restored. And the candle was lit.
I wonder what one's chances are of escaping from a burning skyscraper. High, do you think?
I told them all a ghost story I had made up and they were actually pretty scared by it! I just babbled on about a guy who didn't believe in Halloween, and then some ghost children punished him for not doing a trick or giving them sweets so now he believes in Halloween :P I threw in the odd bowl of soup turning into blood and a skeleton hand on the window for good measure and they all went oooooo.
Raymond, Fairy, Edward (3rd teacher of theirs-Chinese) and I went to the same restaurant as I had been to on Tuesday. It is apparently quite famous which explains why everyone I know always squees at the mention of its name. Raymond had asked what food I like and I had mention the fried pork in a sweet sauce and he had immediately though of that place. It is a North-Eastern Chinese dish and that restaurant specialises in that. So free nice dinner :D
However the really annoying downside is that I have to go and teach at the Kelloggs factory in a city called Yishui. This is so far away I and Raymond, and maybe others, have to go there on Friday night so we can be there early enough on the Saturday to teach. This means I will spend all of Saturday teaching, which will earn lots of lovely money if a tad exhausting! Buuuut this means I can't go and do the commercial for the Asian Games which had sounded really fun and paid well. The company rang me up a minute ago and I had to say no, which was painful. Then they rang me up again to try and change my mind because apparently the commercial shooters really wanted me. Gah! Hopefully they will remember me when something similar is wanted and I can start my acting career then :P But I figured that it was better to spend my time getting a job that potentially pays a 1000 a week rather than one that pays 1000 a day... Plus 6 hours of teaching on Saturday plus another hour on Halloween equals 910kuai which is around £91- only £9 less than the commercial. And I get to go to Yishui! Yay...
The other downside is that I can't see Vivien tomorrow as planned so I have had to reschedule her to Sunday. Luckily she didn't mind. Dammit, work gets in the way of my fun...
I am now planning 6 hours of classes. Not as easy as it looks!
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