Many of my most awkward situations have been orchestrated by two special individuals. One of these is the Mountain Man (more about him later) and the other is Principal Pai. I have many stories about both of these very unique men, but you can't understand my stories until you have a little background on these men. So this is my catch up on principal Pai post.
The Man
Principal Pai is the principal at Hi-Chian elementary character school (only when he says Character he rolls the "r" *grimaces*). He's a good principal and he really cares about his school and about good character. The only thing is he has almost zero personality or sense of humor. Yet, his school has mostly young teachers who like to joke and laugh. He doesn't usually get what other people are laughing about so he tends to laugh awkwardly anytime he thinks someone might have said a joke. Worse than all of this, he wears his pants so stinkin' high! It's awful. So awful. He wears these pleated waist slacks up at his elbows practically. I shouldn't let something so shallow bother me so unbelievably much, but it does.
The butt bumping story
This horrible, horrible event occurred at our school in the evening. We were having a big 6th grade graduation party. You wouldn't believe these Taiwanese people could do it, but they have a huge bonfire and dance around it. It was really fun...watching. That was until I got dragged into the big line dance by the principal and a director. So I got stuck holding hands with the principal and a director lady and doing the chicken dance. In the middle of the circle was a DJ person yelling out commands in Chinese. I had no idea what was going on until suddenly the entire group of students and teachers and principal start bumping butts with each other. When I realized with horror what was going on, I had no time to get away and...you guessed it. The high pantsed principal bumped butts with me! I didn't have time to freak out because other butts were coming at me. So I dodged Taiwanese butts and moved over to where my students were dancing. I guess the command was to bump butts with ten people. Oh lucky me. The next command was to grab 10 people's thighs and then to tickle 10 people. I got out of there quickly! I really had no idea they could be like that!
I have got to learn CHINESE!!!!
So this happened last June and as you can probably tell, I'm scarred for life
I believe that picture pretty much says it all. Notice his hand is about 2 inches away from my flesh. That just exudes awkwardness.
ReplyDeleteOh, and can I just say about the thigh grabbing story (that's what I call it)--there is nothing worse then the directors and principals of your school, the men who EMPLOY you, trying to grab your thigh. Isn't there a law against that? Yes, I too screamed and ran.
Oh.
And about the butt bumping--can I just clarify that it was not HIP-on-HIP, it was BUTT-on-BUTT. Like, both cheeks. Yeah. Now you know. @_@
Oh my goodness!!! That is awful!!! Yes you do need to learn Chinese!
ReplyDeleteGood thing you have a wonderful Chinese teacher now! heh heh...-Faith
ReplyDeletehe he! the story is finally out!
ReplyDeleteThat is SO funny. I could just see it all in my head as I was reading it. Thanks for sharing that Trish. Good read. ;)
ReplyDeleteI have heard this story before and you still made me choke on my pop. :) Fizzles in my nose while I tried to not choke harder...you should write memoirs when you are 80.
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