Hey! Check me out!!! I won the Two of Diamonds!!! I’m so excited. Now…how did I do it? Well…aside from getting all you cool people to vote for me, and my friends to vote for me…and having my friends tell all their friends….I pretty much camped out in a yahoo chat room called “I’ll show you my tits!” and copied and pasted a bunch a times the url and how much I wanted to win. I also updated my yahoo profile with a good pic and the url to go vote! And that…as Drew would say…is kicking yer ass! So the girls of Girl2 are now 2’s in the deck of Breasts! LOL
In other news, we went to TES tonight and sat through a very LONG and arduous election of it’s board members. There are just some people you want to smack. Course I have to say I wasn’t in much of a mood for the remarks some people were making since I’d just come from teaching the 5pm class of little kids at Karate. I gave them all pushups for misbehaving..let me tell you how many people at TES I had the urge to give them too!
On the other hand…something happened tonight at class that confirmed why I enjoy teaching so much. One of the kids, who typically isn’t totally with ya most of the time (the ceiling is usually more interesting to him) came into class with his older brother who’s also in his class. For two weeks I’ve been telling them that they have to practice pushups at home because the youngest can’t do pushups for crap. He looks like a worm drowning in water. Each time I ask they tell they’ll do it and when they come in they tell me they forgot. So when I saw them today 30 mins before their class was due to start I took them aside and asked if they’d done them. They both smacked their heads cause they’d forgotten…again. So I asked if they knew what that meant and the older said “pushups”. I told him that they had 30 mins to do 50 GOOD pushups. He was going to help his brother get better. So after some confusion of how to do this I watched him show his brother 5 good pushups, then watched as the younger did 5 totally PERFECT pushups. We were all totally stunned into silence…me, his brother, and all his classmates on the side waiting for their class. I encouraged him to continue doing them that way through all 50. He simply said he was only doing what his brother was doing. Hey..whatever works! After they were done, I stood myself infront of the younger and told him that I wasn’t going to be there for his class but I’d now SEEN him do perfect pushups and that that is what I wanted from him in the next class. I made him promise me he’d do it, even though I wouldn’t be there. I told him if he did it…Sensei would LOVE him. He said…”yeah and if I do it…I might get to black belt faster.” I totally agreeed with him. So we shook on it and I went back to help teach. Before I left they got to their pushups and though he didn’t see that I was standing in back watching…he did his pushups just like he promised he’d do them. And I was SOOO very proud of him. :grins: And this is one of the reasons I like teaching.
Sorry for the long post but I thought you’d like to hear about it. ๐