well it started off as rather hot this morning, but the spell has been broken as did the storm. A lovely, tropical storm. So it's a little wet round these parts. I went to one of my classes on friday but the entire class seemed to have gone AWOL, not a soul to be seen. So I went back to my office and no-one has said a thing. How odd. We did the tutoring again on Friday evening followed by a quick trip to the shopping centre to buy some hamster food. I want a bunny rabbit! Or a ferret, they were quite cute too. I was up early on Saturday teaching, squeezed in my shopping before doing some more teaching at the middle school. That was nice. The lessons were on weekend activities and adverbs of time, so at the end of the second lesson I nicely combined this with their multitude of questions they always want to ask. I would answer as long as they correctly used an adverb of time and took a point away if the question did not contain one. Genius.
We were invited out for a meal by the family of a student, Peter from P6B and Michael from K3B. There was a large group of the teachers went too. Michael had his friend with him and the two of them (being my kindergarteners) recited everything we had learnt this week at me and wanted to play games at the dinner table. The men of the family were more interested in making us ganbei (lit. empty glass) this included several glasses of brandy and several beers. It is rude to refuse and they were the hosts so we begged them no more but to no avail. Also as hosts, they order everybodys food, which lead to a nice plate of steak a plate of french goose liver being placed in front of me. Eventually, we explained that I didn't eat meat so in it's place they gave me a fish steak. Not too much but anything was better than nothing. Following the meal, through which Peter was being made to translate and he became increasingly more embarrassed of his rather drunken uncle and his father, we went to KTV. It was somebody's bithday (the restaurant seemed to think it was mine oddly enough) so there was a big cake. We sang happy birthday and some immature person decided that instead of eating the cake like normal people, the cake should be smeared on everybody's faces. Yes, a cake fight followed. I woke up with so much cake in my ear it was unbelievable. Contrary to popular belief, this wasn't started by me, or Isobel for that matter, but it did include the Head of English and the school vice principal. I had to confirm with Izzie the night's events in the morning it seemed so bizarre! I spent yesterday cleaning up and reorganising my wardrobe. I have over 20 tops that are unsuitable for everyday wear. How stupid is that!
Aviva came round, so we cooked spaghetti and watched 10,000 BC. every now and again it switched briefly to chinese so it was possibly a good thing that Aviva was there as she was able to translate for us. It was a nice meal.
Today, I'm trying to print off P6's test but the printer is being all fuzzy and it's illegible. Well, I can read it but I knew what it said in the first place. Stupid printer
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