I woke up with a bit of pep in my step. Today was the last day of work before a seven-day break, and I only had three class periods, that I used to give a unit exam to the eleventh-graders. Very easy stuff, I almost considered myself on vacation already. It’s a national holiday to commemorate the founding of the People’s Republic on October 1st, 1949, overall it works out to a bit less than a week due to make-up days at the beginning and the end but it’s a big nice chunk of days off nonetheless.
There’s one
grade-12 student I get along with, she isn’t in one of my classes but she was
in the skateboarding club last year. A few days ago I ran into her in the
hallways, asked how is she doing, and she said “I’m hungry!” so I gave her one
of the muffins the girlfriend made. This morning, I saw her and her friends again,
and she told me she left something on my desk. It was a plastic cup with some
kind of fruit salad, with a thank you note in half-Chinese, half-English,
saying I’m the nicest teacher and the mafen
was delicious. Touching.
During the
lunch break I made a huge pot of creamy seafood pasta with broccoli. It was
delicious. I rubbed my belly in satisfaction, like one of those Buddha statues.
And to sweeten the deal even more, the school said the work day would end at 3
PM, so my afternoon was very short.
I got home
and relaxed, watching random stuff on YouTube. Then I opened FL Studio and
Audacity, two audio mixing softwares, and made music. The music I make is pure
shit and barely can be called listenable, but it’s a lot of fun to
plug-and-play with all the instruments, pitch, tempo, and all the effects I do
trial-and-error with. I’m trying to make grindcore, but it just sounds like a
giant mechanical beast farting.
The
girlfriend came just as I was about to go walk the animals, so we went
together. I went to bed fairly early, a big day ahead of me.
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