What happens in Changsha stays in Changsha

Ni hao friends and family.
So last weekend I safely returned from the Changsha excursion. I'm not even going to explain what partook in this city. Let's just say 11 guys and many bottles of whiskey in a foreign city for 3 days is a recipe for disaster. Mother do not worry your son was relatively behaved. I cannot say the same for some of the other teachers on the trip. But it was expected.
Changsha is a big city quite similar to Wuhan, I didn't find much difference in it besides the fact that there was a subway (the restaurant) and I ate there about four times in complete bliss.
We boarded the train after school at about 3 in the afternoon on Friday and three blurry days later we somehow all arrived home in one piece. I took no pictures of the trip but i did take a video of all of us racing through the streets on electric motorbikes yelling at each other. Unfortunately, when I checked my bag recently it seems I have lost my camera. I either left it in Changsha or it got stolen. I lose everything I own at some point or another as some of you already know. This means there will be no pictures or videos for awhile until I get a new one.

and that is all i will say about Changsha.......... It's for the best trust me.

I returned to Wuhan and went back to work. After classes on Monday it was time for my big audition for my super Michael Jackson singing, dancing team. I was surprised to see that about 40 kids showed up and I had no idea where to even start. Basically, I started pointing at people and saying "you. sing" or "you.dance" "NOW". I didn't expect so many people to show up and I knew I could only choose maybe 10 of them to be part of the show. I felt so bad telling kids they had to leave, but Nemo and Mr. Li were booting kids out the door left and right. I guess with that many people it had to be narrowed down quickly.
I ended up with about 20 kids because I couldn't choose between people, some of them just tried so hard and I couldn't stand to see the look of rejection on their faces. Some were also my students and I have to admit I was picking favourites. I was being way too nice for this.
I explained this to Mr. Li and he straight up told me "This is China, they are used to being rejected"
Oh well i guess when you put it that way....
So I had spent the short time I had before my audition scrambling some sort of mini dance routine to teach them to seperate the dancers, as a majority of the kids who showed up were girls wanting to dance. Let me reiterate that I have no experience in this whatsoever. But I learnt the first few parts of the dance from the actual music video of Beat It and proceeded to try to teach them. The ones that couldn't keep up got sent away. It actually became fun after awhile.
You, leave.
You, get the %$# out.
You, cut.
You, yea your not good enough get out.
You, your humping the air repeatedly. Awesome, but CUT.
The singers weren't too hard to pick out. I basically just picked the ones who were brave enough to sing on the spot and showed enthusiasm. Singing is all about confidence and I needed performers, not people who were going to choke on stage. Choking on stage in front of people will get you killed in China. I didn't want any kids deaths from their parents on my hands. Oh and one kid is totally a homosexual, he can sing and dance like no ones business. He's definitely in.
Funny actually, I told Nemo I wanted 6 boys and 5 girls and he pointed to the gay kid and said "but he is girl." I was speechless.
Nemo.. you clown you.
I also had to assemble a little asian rock band. I think our band name will be "Fuzzy Panda Kill Robot Good." I would be shredding the lead Van Halen guitar in Beat it, while I had to pick my drummer and keyboard player as well as figure out who is going to play bass. None of the kids had any idea what a bass even was. I found a little boy who was pretty good at guitar and strapped a bass to him. "Okay asian Paul Mccartney" I said "Now you have to play bass, no more guitar for you."
I think thats how all bass players start out. No one plays bass by pure choice. If they do, it's because they know they've killed most of their brain cells from Marijuana use. Who are they kidding? They can't play guitar. Let alone spell the word.
Corey=1 Bass players=0

After two days of tryouts and disappointed children I had picked out my super MJ team. I stood in the middle of the room and yelled "super MJ team. ASSEMBLE!"
and we started work on the choreography. With all my bosses watching I proceeded to teach my first dance class.
Why did I agree to this?

Through watching many youtube videos and dancing around my room for a few days I was able to piece together the dance from the music video. I wish you guys could see me do this thing. Hilarious.
So lately this is how I've been spending most of my days. I teach my four classes in the morning, have an hour break for lunch and then teach singing, dancing and a band for 3 hours after school. It really is alot of work. I get home and just want to relax but then I have to keep up on my marking for my classes and lesson planning. But I guess it's good that I am keeping busy and not sitting around like last month.

Today though practice was cancelled. All the teachers were called in to a meeting this afternoon and told we were going to be learning a song. Oh great, I thought, more singing. To my wondrous surprise the song we would be singing would be a chinese song. How thoughtful of them. Apparently there is a big show next month with all the schools and they want all the foreign teachers to sing a chinese song on stage for all the parents, directors and principals. What a fun idea that is.
We sat in a room for 2 hours today all attempting to sing this traditional chinese song. I rather enjoyed it actually and pondered why I didn't join the choir in highschool. Oh yes, because it was totally not cool at the time.
Then she said we would be doing another song, an english song this time. The chinese singing teacher busted out the lyrics to Take Me Home Country Road by John Denver. Interesting. I've learnt that the Chinese absolutely love this song. I played it at the bar and the whole place went insane.
Apparently we would be singing Hua Dua li Huo (or whatever the hell it is) followed by some good ole John Denver. What a beautiful set list. They flow incredibly well together.
Me, Sean and Chris all ran and got our guitars for the song and all the teachers sang it at the top of our lungs. We only needed some beers and it would have been a party.

Other than all that I haven't been doing too much else. The other day I got lost for 3 hours, that was fun. I've also recently succeeded in getting an N64 on my computer and tonight made an excursion to the computer store to buy some USB controllers. I now have a fully functional multiplayer console and the other teachers are all wanting a turn, being equally deprived of video games.
This is definitely what I need right now. Sweet sweet video games. And maybe a massage. And maybe a real beer. And maybe some fresh air. And maybe a Buffalo Chicken Sandwich from Broadways.
Oh man what have I started. I could go on for awhile.

Anyways, I will try to keep everyone updated when I can about the progress of Super MJ Team. But for now it's been a long, tedious day and I think I slept about an hour last night. I was so delusional this morning I was walking through the schoolyard propsing kids and saying "what up playa" and various other things I knew they wouldn't understand.
sleep. now
good night.