Saturday day time was pretty uneventful. Come evening time we headed over to our favourite drinking place. The lady there is called Lily, she is a lovely Chinese lady who I can practise my Mandarin skills on. She knows my name now, yay. So after a few refills of Carlsberg for me, and a "delicious" mixture of Guinness and Tiger beer for Jo, everyone was pretty jolly (at 7.30 pm) and our friend the police officer suggested some karaoke. We answered with a puzzled look of slight worry and "is there actually karaoke in this village?!" Apparently yes. We politely said that we were unable to do karaoke because we were taking the children to watch the football on tv at 9.30, but Policeman tried his best to persuade us. In the end we agreed to go for an hour from 8 till 9. We went out of the pub and crossed the road and walked up the stairs. The karaoke place is split up into separate rooms, each with the tv, microphones etc. that you find in a karaoke. We all did a song each and then the others sang lots of Malaysian love songs. Maybe a few too many? The highlight was definitely belting out Robbie Williams's "Angels" with King on backing vocals.
After that we left the karaoke and went to meet the children from school, pretending that we had not been drinking beer and singing in the karaoke all before 9pm.The football was boring, I think I'm starting to like it less the more games I watch. Maybe I'll keep trying.
On Monday night we went to visit Simon and Bibiana again and their dad Bruno. Their cousins were also at the house, very busy! We managed to persuade some of them to become new recruits at adult class, go us. We sat and drank beer with Bruno and the others until quite late. We had lots of fun trying to pronounce lots of English words, especially those with the "th" sound - "THUUUURSDAY!" Lots of laughs! He then went on to tell us that he feels like we are his daughters, Simon and Bibi's older sisters, very nice! He also wanted to tell us a lot more but couldn't because of the language barrier, but we got the message. After a nice evening we went home at about 1am to plan our lessons for the next day, and sleep.
Today is Wednesday. With class A we started filming some videos that I'm going to put together and send to Gunnersbury. Hopefully they'll be able to make one to send back to us. The filming was very funny, some of them are naturals infront of the camera. We're now at the internet cafe because our dongle (internet stick) that we have at the flat is so mind numbingly slow that whenever we plug it into our laptops we lose the will to live. So now I'm watching some Neighbours online, and planning tonight's adult lesson and something for Class A tomorrow.
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