Ouch.
Yesterday was the first day of the course and so at 8am I was given 36
little students to look after.( officially they are called
participants but we call them
pants
for short) They are mostly
fresh out of college and so
damn
eager its quite sickening.
Eagerness is no substitute for aptitude however
and none of them finished the day's activities
on time. In fact most of them were
here until 10:30pm, and of course since they were here
I had to be here.
aargh.
I finally got them all out of here around 10:40. I was at the bar by 10:45.
If this keeps up
its going to be a long two weeks.
I was swamped by a
wave of depression at about 1am but luckily I had drunk enough that
I passed out
before too long.
The
weekend was good though. Went into
Chicago in a
stretch limo and got some rooms
in the
Allegro Hotel. On the way I saw a
Rescue Rooters van.
Apparently they clear drains of
tree roots and the like but my
Australian
interpretation of
root
introduced
connotations that i found most amusing. "
Bad date? call rescue rooters!".
Anyway we started the night out at
Kingston Mines. Fantastic
blues but a bit subdued
for people with as many recent late nights as us and we were in danger of crashing early
so we went searching for
a place to dance.
We eventually ended up at a place called
The Drink. The front bar was
absolutely abysmal
but then I wandered through to the
dance floor and in the words of one of my
English
companions
it was playing "
really bangin house man". It
was too. We danced until about 4am,
I swear that DJ
was trying to kill me.
The crowd in there was a little strange for the music though. I am becoming increasingly
convinced that
Americans can't dance. They just short of shuffled and
lurched drunkenly from
side to side, and seemed to be somewhat
bemused by us.
We created some interesting
dance floor dynamics though. At first we would
attract women.
I assume this was because we were a group of guys who were there to
dance rather than
pick up and we were having
fun. After a while we would be
surrounded by girls,
and this would
cause an influx of males who
were trying to pick up, and who would chase all the females away.
Once all the girls were gone, the guys would
slowly disperse and then the girls would start coming back.
The
gender balance around us kept fluctuating between
wild extremes all night.
weird.
Next weekend we are planning to go to
the crowbar in search of americans with dancing ability.
Kung's USA Daylogs
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