11:13 am - Charming Moments from a Sinking Ship
Alas, our school here in Chongqing seems to be well on its way to the realm of the Dodo bird or at least the Cloud Leopard, probably due to the extremely timid funding of our promotional activities by our Singaporean boss/franchisee owner. To be fair, having a foreign assistant manager (me) without any prior management experience--and only six months of teaching experience--in charge of things probably didn't aid us much in surmounting the challenges of increasing our marketshare either. I've had a steep learning curve, not a lot of support or direction, and learned plenty of lessons the hard way. Fair enough. Perhaps I will be looking for other employment, come the fall.
But be that as it may, there are still some very charming moments to be had in this sinking school.
I was playing a game with my promotional class, last night, wherein one person says, "I like..." something, and everyone who likes that 'something' has to get up and change seats. A little girl, whose chosen English name is 'Care', was in the middle. She said, "I like Mao Zedong". No one got up.
Later after class, Care asked me if I would be her teacher for her class at Aston, and I had to say that it would very sadly not be the case (possibly costing us a customer). It seems that I have a coterie of such young admirers. One little girl who attends our summer C2 class always looks for me, but the last couple of days I took the opportunity to sleep in, and she was most disappointed. Another girl who likes basketball and has a very boyish haircut, I had mistaken to be a boy. In fact, I named her 'Matt' after one of my best friends back in the states. Only later one of my co-workers discovered that this was indeed a girl (if a tom-boyish one), and that she was yet another admirer of Bai Hai Feng (my chosen Chinese name).
Chinese word of the day: ke ai de (cute)
On a completely different note, I'd like to thank my friend Jenny for posting this for me, thus bypassing the ever more vigilant Chinese censorship apparatus. Perhaps we might yet devise a way to post pictures--thus far only available to those of you that possess Facebook accounts--from my life and adventures here in Chongqing.
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