training

so.

the party was interesting - almost all westerners, many canadians, much alcohol and general drunkeness. the cops showed up because of the noise. i met several interesting people, and many of them had info about jobs that may be available. i got home very late and slept late. got a call from the taiwanese girl with the accent (by the way, i would like to revise my description to a philly accent) who's name in sherry. apparently the sesame street (where r teaches) boss wanted to know if i wanted to go to a training session on monday. i watched several b movies on sunday and slept. this (monday) morning i got up at 6 and ran to meet sherry. we went into starbucks so she could get a bagel, where i met an american english teacher at the local catholic school. we both complained bitterly about the lack of bagel quality outside of the east coast until sherry's "bagel" was ready and we ran to catch the very busy bus. we got to taipei and i went to mcdonalds (!) for a hash brown and oj breakfast. i haven't been to a mcdonalds in years, i don't like to support mcd's, but the b-fast wasn't bad and it was cheap. and i needed to eat something. the training consisted of playing games with sesame street characters, several of which i have never seen before. who the hell is prairie dawn, betty lou, or herry (yes, with an e, he's a blue muppet)? i dunno, but i should say i need to work on my body language before i try to teach - at the moment i think i'm way too boring to be inflicted on small children (we did a brief demo - i tried and sucked). Tomorrow there will be more of a full class demonstration -- hopefully good experience even if i totally screw it up. after class, sherry and i went to eat in the american zone. i should have had something western - everything was very pricey and the kung pao i had was not as good as the much, much cheaper lunches i have in keelung. sherry is very nice and fun to talk to -- i will see her later when we witness some classes and pick up props for our demo tomorrow. her husband is an american who moves around a lot - they just moved back from the states. ok, gotta go.