Superman?! Me?!

I think I may have lost 15lbs already... but I'm not sure. It's 10 for sure. So much running and walking running and walking. I just recorded a bunch of children's songs for the teachers here. Songs like, 'Jingle Bells' 'The More We Get together' and... um.... 'If you're happy and you know it'... stuff like that. Ken and I recorded them about 5 minutes ago... well, we a finished about 5 mins ago. That went well.

Everyday is very very busy. I get up, plan, teach the children's group until lunch, then take a mamoo (taxi... sorta) over to the school, and then I have lunch and a meeting there. After that, I play for the 140 adults for about a half hour, teaching them these kinds of songs. Then, I take another mamoo back to the hotel where the kids are being taught and I help teach in the afternoon. Today for example, when that was over, I was motorbiked over to a small house with about 15 guitar players (2 weeks worth of learning) ... wow..... I felt like a celebrity. They asked me to play some songs, I taught them 'You are my sunshine' and then I spoke to them about my family, friends, Country, my bonnie over the ocean, and my guitar playing. What was really wierd was they liked many of the same things I do. I mean, after the whole guitar thing, there was singing... they all LOVE to sing. Ok, and then one of them came and flat out asked me, 'Do you draw?' lol, and laughed and... well, yeah, I guess I do! So she hurried off to get a piece of paper. I drew a mountain scene like I did for you on the back of that card. THey all ooed and ahhed and then started to fight over it... that and everything that I touched almost. I had a bunch of simple old polaroid photos that always get in my way, so I asked if anyone wanted one, and WHOOSH, everyone was there to grab one, and fight over them. wow.... heh... one of them wants me to write out a paragraph for her to read tommorow.

Ok, so at 6:30 i finally dragged myself away from the kids, and 'Elton John' their teacher who so despretely wanted me to come, started taking me to the school on his bike. We got there to find my students who had come for games. However, Elton convinced them to tell me to go for supper with him.... (he speaks NO english).... so, off we go. We found a street vendor that was cooking after driving for 10 minutes and so we stopped there. He ordered stuff and I was told to sit and wait. Soon it came, and I was eating away. ANd wouldn't you know it, I dropped a dumpling... but i didn't hear the little 'ploosh' sound of it landing in the water, I heard the sound of giggling. I looked up, and there are 30 people at about 5 tables staring at me. lol. wow. Ok, so I sit there and ate more, never dropping any. That was kewl. Then another plate came, and i recognized the shape of it. It was fried fish.... like, battered, whole, fish. That kind of fried fish. Whee! Ok. So, i gave a quick prayer and off I went. I wanted to not see them anymore, so I ate them all.... then I ate this other wierd tasting tofu... the good things about the street eating is that when you finish something, they don't cook you more. YOu have to order it. Unfortunately, I forgot Elton was watching, even though he wasn't at the table. So, logically, if I ate them all, I must have REALLY liked them... so he bought me more.... 'NOOOOOOOOOOooooooooooooooooo!!!' I screamed silently in my mind.... blah... oh well, and off I went ... eating more happily fried fish. Then i drove back to the school and had a great time there hanging out with the kids and having the girls of the town call me pretty and beautiful.... O.o
THen I got back to the hotel, walking. That was fun, and lol, THEN i recorded that cd with Ken, and now I'm back to where I started.

WhEw

What a day.... that of course is just the summary. THere was much much more that happened, but would take far too long for me to type everything. One I can mention is that one of the kids' primary leaders, organizers, and head of the team left today for Hong Kong. That means, now I've been promoted. That, and the kids call me superman... but that's another story.

It's been busy. Anyways, I hope you all have a great day, and well, take care!
xie-jin