June 23rd: Thursday parties and tent excess

Day 280

We all had breakfast at the hotel with the frazzled Ms. Rock, who was a little tardy from visiting students and teachers. Rhys made his egg and bacon sandwich again and took seven minutes to do, (because of cold butter). A table behind us had a group of swine who were hocking loud phlegm conjures and spitting onto the carpet. I think this alone should demote the hotel's rank by a star. Disgusting.


erin rock enjoys the toast


the swine what spit on carpet


erin and jeni


rhys's 7 minute eggwich


While the others helped Erin sort her stuff out, I went and partied with the Ultraman class. I gave Julian my coat and a Paperback CD. He gave me a hug when I left. He's a bright one and I hope he does come to visit me in America when he's older.


julian

I rushed back to my place and saw Erin off in the school shuttle. My partner in crime, she the one that I shared this whole experience with, starting with the plane ride over, and now she was driving off. It wouldn't really hit me until later when I would see her doorand know that I couldn't just go and knock and see what she was up to. Erin's one of the craziest people I've ever known and I wish her well.


chinese erin goodbye


erin ROCK goodbye

Next I dealt with the dreaded class 1, who ruined their chances for having a party last week by being loathsome and intolerable. I said nothing when I entered and someone mocked my usual opening lines (How are you today? Any questions?) and another student had the gall to ask if there was going to be a party. I hissed at them to be quiet, took away two exacto knives and glared at some kids who were acting up. They stayed quiet, most of them put their heads down on the desk. Summer listened to an mp3 player. No one apologized or even cared they weren't having a party. When the bell rang i didn't even say anything to them. They weren't worth my breath. Even the apathy crew gave me a card for fuck's sake.

The next class was the player/colorwolf obsessed class, filled with some of my favorites like Mike, Charlie Murphy, Paulie Walnuts, Curtis, Jay and Jerry. The girl I told was a good student last week (Kitty) gave me a paper with her hobbies and favorites listed, tanking me for defending her. It was endlessly endearing and cute. I took a picture of my soccer kids all together, then went to the next class and started the whole process over.


the players of class 4

Some of the kids wrote "see you in September" and such, even though I had said I wasn't coming back. I hadn't the heart to tell them again. Afterwards, full of snacks and worn out, I uploaded pictures, then went up to the middle school. We decided to hit the tents since they had kegs. I left the meal to get snacks for Friday's classes, then the rest of the night is a blur. I don't remember leaving the tents, and I don't recall taking some of the pictures I found later. It's estimated I consumed about 3 liters, though Rhys and Jeni will have to confirm the rest of the night.