Second Teaching Day

Forgot to say that this morning a maintenance man came for my hot water. He messed around for a bit before saying "small pressure long time, big pressure short time" which I take to mean that if I want hot water, I need to not turn on the shower all the way. Nice.

He also fixed my bed.

He left, and I left right after him to get to work and I missed the train by literal seconds. So annoying. So I had to wait 10 minutes for the next train and ended up a few minutes late getting to work.

Today was much better because my classes were shorter. I had the Basic 5 class again, and they were much better. I isolated Tom in the front row so there were no incidents. My second class was Reading 3.2 (or was it 2.2?!) and there were 14 students! Pretty insane. It went well though, or well enough for the first day. People participated. We read a story, obviously. This one was about animals cleaning themselves basically. And then we did grammar. My last class was Reading 2.2 (or 3.2...) and there were only 6 students. Honest, a boy, was looking at his cell phone, so I took it away. In that class we read about a Rooster that is cooking a strawberry shortcake...and then we did grammar.

After that I took some stuff for the house that I found in storage at YES (a pan, a laundry bag, chopsticks, hangers, etc) and came home, picked up some water that had been delivered, and went with Nhi and her friend Allison to eat barbecue. It was really yummy. You have a table and a circular grate in the middle with hot coals underneath and they give you a platter of raw meat and you put it on the grate yourself. It comes with about a billion side dishes, but I thought the corn was the best.

Then we walked about a block to a place with hookah. It was nice and chill...there were cats running around here. You have to take your shoes off at the door and the guy puts them in a bag and brings them over by your area. You sit on the floor around a tiny red table and they bring you whatever you order and a complementary bowl of what I think was something similar to fried pretzels...really yummy and had a good crunch to them.

Now it's off to bed. Tomorrow I'm meeting Andy again and he's going to take me downtown from what I understand...so we'll see...