Old habits die hard

It seems that I am procrastinating. It's now March and I suppose Spring fever of sorts is setting in. I realize that I haven't been writing a lot and many of you are worried or concerned but don't be. I don't write when I'm happy. It's a weird sort of tick. That doesn't mean that I'm not happy right now, I'm writing right now because I'm waiting for a power point to download and it's taking a ridiculously long time.

The big question. No, I still don't know whether or not I'm coming back to China. I will tell you when they tell us which I'm sure won't be for a little while. If I come back I come back, if I don't I don't, I'm not exactly worrying about it right now. I have other things to think about.

To take a page from Calvin and Hobbes "these days are just packed" so it would seem, and packed in good ways. I have 78 days left after tonight turns into tomorrow. Which means 13 more lessons to plan (actually multiply that by two because I teach both Junior 1 and 2 and they're not always the same lessons.) When I'm not teaching I'm running around Bao'an with Brendon or Li Shuai Qiang and getting up into mischief, or cooking or taking injured friends to the hospital or watching them dance at the Guangchang or avoiding certain Chinese people.

Brendon and I have decided that 95% of Chinese people are annoying. The other 5% are cool. In those 95% are people who want to you to teach them English, take you out to dinners constantly (which are awkward), ask you about business propositions, introduce you to other Chinese people (who are usually just as annoying) or go out drinking. And now recently we have a guy who needs to borrow some cash, which Brendon and I are a little leary of doing. The other 5% are some of the people I'm friends with at the University, my boyfriend (of course, I wouldn't date him if he was in the majority), and a few teachers. I'm not trying to sound like I'm complaining it's just it gets on your nerves sometimes. Chinese people like to assume that they are your only and best Chinese friend and you should always make time for them even though there are 800 other Chinese people out there that you know that are vying for the same attention. Well, at least Brendon has it worse off than I do, haha.

There are emails that are floating around about people who have been stolen from and we realized that nearly every person in this damn program has either A. been mugged/burglerd B. been attempted stolen from (i.e. me) or C. lost their cell phone in either (bathroom, taxi, hole, i dunno). People this is sad. This is just lack of common sense. Yeah I know China is not the safest place in the world but there is no reason why EVERYONE has nearly had this happen to them. And no I won't hear the defense's case because I have SEEN girls hang their purses over the backs of chairs in stead of tucking them behind them or on their laps. I have seen money sticking out of loose hoodies or ipods or cell phones for that matter. Or wallets in back pockets. I have seen people just abandon their items in bars in the good faith that the barkeeper will watch it. I dunno where everyone is from of course. And while me and my brother live an hour from detroit and not actually IN the city, we're not stupid. I'm not saying that the people who've been mugged or lost cell phones are dumb, maybe careless. Of course I say this and watch tomorrow mine will fall down a china hole or something. Whatever I needed to talk about it cuz it was bugging me. Everyone?! Psh. Ridiculous.