Chinese April Fools
Well and truly busted yesterday, we all were. Brandon, one of the teachers here at Circle English nailed one of the other teachers Chris, myself and our boss. Pretty good going considering the number of foreigners here in Korla - he got most of us.
He tricked Chris first telling him at 10am that the Circle English secretary had just texted him to say that he was late for class, the students were waiting and he had better get over to Hua Shan right away. Chris promptly gathered up his books, put on his jacket and dashed to work. One down.
Then it was my turn. Brandon called me to say that he had just seen one of the guys I teach with who had asked where I was as we had class today. Two weeks ago we had Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday off - all of Senior 2 did - and we made up the Tuesday and Wednesday over the last couple of weekends. But we haven’t made up for the last Thursday so it was quite believable, especially that early in the morning. 6 classes and running late. We had our friend Mohammed’s brothers wedding yesterday we would have to cancel. Terrible.
David was the last to get pinged. After the wedding, itself another story, we came back into Korla and had some dinner. Around 9pm David called Brandon and Brandon answered saying how dare you call me after you did what you did last night and then hung up on David. Of course on Friday David was pretty trousered, dancing topless like an albatross as he does, so it was a fairly safe bet that there were some blanks in David’s’ Friday night. Brandon left him to stew for 20 minutes. Our boss had fallen hook, line, sinker, fishing vessel and regional economy for it so in the meantime he called Lincoln to find out what he might have done and also sent Brandon a very apologetic text. Poor David.
Brandon’s laughter gave away the game and we arranged to meet up with David and Chris for a quiet drink. We were planning to head down to the Peacock River and to enjoy the ambience there but those places aren’t open yet so it was the night market across from the China Telecom building that won out.
While en route we asked Chris about his day and he said it was fine. One class, a final class where the students have a test. The test had two parts reading and hearing. The reading part was fine, but the hearing! Chris had the students close their eyes. He then had the students raise their hands when they heard him click his fingers. And that was the listening test. Needless to say all of the students got 100% in the listening section.
And that was no April Fools.
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