I have a class on Saturday mornings that I don't mind teaching so much, they're older but still not quite awkward although its getting there fast. five junior high boys and one girl so in order to actually get them talking (it's a conversation class) I have to talk about things that aren't necessarily from the magazine articles we discuss.
There was one article about some cooking show on natgeo channel that led to the discussion question "What food turns your stomach?"
I got this answer from one of the more enthusiastic students about a Chinese dish, although for the life of me I couldn't understand what the name of this dish was because this kid has a hell of a lisp.
oh, I looked it up. It's 三吱兒, san zhi or three squeaks (or sound a door makes)
It involves pink baby mice. It's not very appetizing.
So apart from shopping all over the place and feeling very fashionable, due to my ride having to go to the birthday of a niece I ended my night at that magical black hole called Chuck E Cheese's.
that place has both delighted and scared the crap out of me ever since I was a kid.
I was one of those kids too scared to jump up on stage and rock out with those mechanical contraptions that would spring to life when you least expected it.
One thing I was terribly disappointed in was the lack of a ball pit. That was the fun part; diving down, finding loose change and old socks. Random ball fights around the whole arcade.
I don't know how we didn't get multiple diseases or how one would even clean a pit full of plastic spit covered balls or those hamster tubes that kids ran around in that finally ended in a pee covered slide.
I'm not kidding, I watched a little boy pee down the slide before sliding down himself into the arms of his waiting mom. She scooped him up and whisked him away before being made to clean up after her demon child. I was stuck. Forever. For what seemed like forever.
I really don’t have much more to say, the food was mediocre, the lost children didn’t realize they were lost, and everyone looked sick and tired of the place as soon as they walked in.
I don’t even want to try and make that funny.
