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First Crazy Saturday Teaching

Alvin's Saturday schedule is pretty hectic. I just took over his schedule and it starts from 9:45 to 6:00 with less than 2 hours break. First thing in the morning I have the 5 girls (Caren, Meir, Natalie Cho, Natlie Tsang, and Shirley) who are a delight to teach but tend to get distracted easily. As soon as one finishes an assignment they like to hide under the table. They also invented the silliest song about "going to Japan". Meir is the clown of the group and tends to throw them into fits of laughter or silliness. Right after I have another large group but this one is a little harder. I have one person who just doesn't really respond in class, and several energetic kids. Basically if you have one tough class during the day, you really wish to die by the end of it all. It drains you so much when you have to deal with one student. Saturdays are rough; I don't look forward to Saturdays. This is basically my second Saturday in Hong Kong. Since I am no longer living out in Tin Shui Wai, I still was invited by the previous MJ playing group to meet them tonight after work. I called to confirm and Wendy's mother told me they had cancelled.

There has been so many interesting little events. I have been living at Pheobe and Erine's place. Pheobe must be so jealous I always get her boyfriend distracted, so we stay up so late every night. We just start talking about interesting things and it keeps going. She always throws in comments that we should get married and that she'll move out with some other girl so that I can move in. He has this box set of Kitano movies (they guy with the twitch in his eye in "Battle Royale" the movie) and forced the movie "Brother" on me. It was actually interesting about a Japanese gangster who flees to America and starts another gang. I was thinking how much Rui would love this movie. The other day when Pheobe and I were leaving in the morning for work we ran into the scarest sight. Hong Kong's infamous cockroaches. Something had plugged the septic tank or some part of the sewage system. They had openned up a little man hole at the base of the entrance and were busy trying to clear the clog. The water had back flowed onto the surrounding area and there were little chucks of what could only be things from other humans. There only safe path was close to the wall and even the cockroaches would not walk on the ground. They had climbed up all along the wall. These things are about 5 cms in length, they are so big. Luckily there was another entrance so we took the second way out. But I think the incident scarred me for life. A day or two afterwards I was stepping out of the elevator and I heard a loud pop. I was with Erine at the time and I was just talking about getting ripped off in Mong Kok buying those cheap shoes. I thought the air bubble in my shoe had just popped and I looked down to check it out. Nope, the air bubble was fine and I looked back and I see this large twitching cockroach on the ground. I was so startled and grossed out I was shivering right there.

The experiences have been pretty interesting so far. The rooms I have been looking at aren't all that promising. Pheobe and Erine have realised that the washroom is so important to me, I haven't adjusted to a shower area infront of my toliet.

I survived my week and Pheobe paid me early since I was running out of money. I will use the money Monday to pay off my 2 weeks of rent in Advance and my real estate agent fee. Hopefully I will be all settled in soon.

posted by Tempest7 @ 13:00