oh, the scandal!

Dec 22, 2004 20:39

i have to say that class today went SO well!! we played pictionary using rather difficult terms (like Qinghai Tibet Railway and S.H.E.) that we had talked about throughout the semester. my wednesdayers got so into the game that at one point, the doorman downstairs poked his head in the classroom to make sure that they were being supervised. they were SO LOUD. i don't think i've laughed so hard in class, ever. one guy, for the word "baby," drew a woman with a big circle in her middle and a blobby looking thing inside, only to lose to the other person who drew a baby carriage with a blobby inside. they laughed, egged on classmates, and yelled out a helluva lotta english words. god bless pictionary!! (and don't worry, i apologized to the doorman after class, whereupon we both laughed). i had them fill out evaluation forms, and i wanted to cry when i got the responses back because they were all just overwhelmingly positive! i think we're doing something right:) in answer to the question, "what do you like most about this class?" one student wrote, "I like the teacher. She's rather cute." How awesome is that? ^__^ many of the students commented on the "free" atmosphere of the class and how they felt comfortable saying anything. yeeees!!! i've been told that i'm "foreign teacher 1" and to stay that number so they can be sure to take my class next semester. i am really thrilled. validation...

so the inside scoop: i want everyone to google mu zi mei (a name) and look her up. she's like the carrie bradshaw of gz, writing about her sexploits online...and perhaps her most famous conquest/write-up is...*drum roll*...wang lei!!! i was talking about interviewing him with my chinese tutor who suddenly said, "wait, did he have 'relations' with muzimei?" we googled them both, and it turns out that that indeed is him. we read the story together with my chinese tutor blushing madly and giggling uncontrollably the entire time. it's my first pornographic story in chinese! it wasn't that risque, but my poor tutor. it takes place right outside this bar that luke and i really like, sleeping wood, and they meet up randomly then decide to have sex. because they both live rather far away, they decide just to do it in a dark alley nearby, "dogy" style (that phrase right there landed her 15 minutes of fame...and the fact that he's the mac daddy of rock 'n' roll who incidentally, has not called me about the interview, damn him:)) as it goes, he wasn't that good, so it's all scandal scandal scandal! in fact, she gave him a 50 out of 100. ai ya. he STILL doesn't have a girlfriend as far as i know. i'm uber-curious! unfortunately, i don't think it's something that i can ask him about without him throwing me out upon my ear and cursing splendidly. i think i'll feign ignorance:) (although a string of chinese curses would be interesting to hear).

in other, less scandalous news, i got my tailored shirt! it looks pretty good--i think i'm slightly thinner than when she measured me because it's loose-ish(yay), but it will do. i love the cut and the sleeves, and i think the tailor was proud of me for designing it myself. you'll have to see it next time it's cold when i see you (haha, that's a mouthful:)).

luke, carlos (who is going home to the states soon!), and i had hotpot at this really cool restaurant about a 20 minute walk away from campus. after stuffing ourselves silly with fishballs, shrooms, and lots of fresh juice (my fave was the watermelon), we were just kind of talking about nothing when this guy approaches me at the table and says, "are they canadian?" to which i'm like, "no, they're american. actually, we're all american." he was about 50, wrinkled, and slightly tipsy, and he kept going on and on about how americans were amazing and how much he admired the us. *sigh* i kept patting his arm and telling him, "no, really. look who we voted into office." kidding--didn't really say that but wanted to...anyway, because he wanted us to drink erguotou (this strong baijiu) with him, i told him that we all had "allergic" reactions to alcohol and that anyway, we had to work really early in the morning. that at least seemed to appease him. he thought he had hit upon a capital idea when he looked rather brightly in my direction and said, "you know! you have asian blood but you're american! that still makes you asian!" it was really buhaoyisi the way he kept insisting that the us was this great country, blah blah blah. i mean, of course there are many things that i love about the us, but i think that china has many good points that the bendiren (natives) simply choose to overlook. i've never met so many people as genuinely nice as people i've met in china.

because we're so full from hotpot tonight, we're going to play badminton outside next to the signpost, the only place you can find light this late. so basically, i'm off to make a spectacle out of myself;) (and exercise while doing it, of course!)
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