st. paddy's day shenanigans and a heads up to my bitches in tejas

so, the job interview got moved from friday to monday thus will go last in this post. thank god it got moved to, cause i would have a been a zombie on friday. i was literally tired like all fucking day. anyways, i wasn't really planning on doing anything friday night to sort of rest up for saturday, but when invited out to dinner in the city, i went. i'm not really sure how i convinced myself that dinner with kate, frank, and evan wouldn't turn into late night drinking, but i did. anyways, we had dinner and drinks at this vietnamese place with awesome sandwiches and then went up to 3d bar where we used to drink after class. 4 towers of beer and a few shots of soco later we met some other foreigners. they teach at an international school, but unfortunately their fucking obnoxious boss was there. he was this short fat australian man who kept saying really vulgar inappropriate things to kate and i. at some point frank and i got in an argument with him about walking up to girls and saying 'wanna fuck?' is not an effective strategy and no one you would actually want to have sex with would ever say yes to that proposition (esp from him). anyways, at some point he said something having to do with me and kate and frank just lost it and started yelling at him and we had to leave cause kate and i were afraid frank was going to hurt him. can i just say, it is really awesome to see someone just completely call someone else out for being a huge dick. 

anyways, then saturday was the pubcrawl. we were a bit late, so they had ran out of hats. i was distraught, but luckily the hat was too small for most of the guys' heads so gavin gave me his. we also got a t-shirt, but i lost that before we even got on the bus. who cares though, cause i had my stupid cat-in-the-hat-esque hat. anyways, it was really, really fun just riding the bus and chatting with people and drinking free beer, and then the bars were fun too. at one point there were these really intense sparkler type fireworks passed out to all of us drunkards. you know, cause who doesn't celebrate st. patrick's day with fireworks? and who better to give them to than a bunch of foreigners who take "all you can drink" as a challenge? i also had a delicious double cheeseburger with my beer. as i smuggled beer off the bus and then drank a number of them in mcdonald's. don't worry, i shared. frank and i also got our portrait sketched, which is now taped to the wall of linda and kate's living room. my favorite is that i was holding a can of beer when we got sketched, and the guy drew these crazy looking bottles in both of our hands, even though frank didn't even have a beer. i then made it in and out of d club only consuming one tequila shot, and we all managed to get back on the bus to luohu at 1:30 am. for some reason in the taxi ride home i decided it was a good time to steal the headrest cover that says "saturday" in chinese and shove it in kofi's pocket. because it clearly fit better there than in my giant bag that previously had 7 beers in. i couldn't tell you why we stayed up so late after that, but i drunk facebooked taryn at 6:30 am. success. 

i was woken up at 1 on sunday to frank calling me asking me to help him collect evan. apparently they weren't as hungover as me to start with, so at lunch they helped welcome jess's cousin to china by introducing him to baijiu. and then drinking 3 bottles of it. when i arrived, evan was laying on the sidewalk. it took us an hour to get him him. it was a 5 minute walk. fail.

anyways, today i had my interview. i'm not sure how it went as the language barrier makes things awkward, but i really hope it went well, as the job sounds awesome. basically until july i would teach my colleagues survival english and then after that i would travel with them and speak for the company when they need an english speaker. apparently i would also summarize things, but i was unclear on what exactly those things would be. moral of the story, if i get this job i get to travel all over the world for about one week a month. in july they're going to egypt, then after that to nairobi, the philippines, northern europe, etc. when i wasn't traveling i would be working around 9 hours a week. anyways, at first i felt like the interview was going poorly because he was having me watch videos and summarize them (which seemed super easy) and then saying "that's all?" after i finished, even though he only asked for 4-5 sentences. then before the last video he was like "you know, you only need to give 4-5 sentences" so i was all kinds of fucking confused.  then he was like "if you get the job when can you work" and we worked out hours and pay. then he said "we can't hire you until you meet the general manager. are you free wednesday?" anyways, we'll see. fingers crossed. 

as a heads up to that, however, there is one downside. i probably wouldn't be able to return home this summer. i don't know that for sure, but i imagine they'd want me there in the weeks leading up to their first big trip. i'd also have to pay for my flight myself. anyways, that means it might be as late as christmas...or chinese new year the next time i get to come home. again, i don't even have a job offer yet, much less the job. but i am sort of realizing if i want to quit teaching and get a real job, it could very likely mean no river trips for me this summer. anyways, i love you all and will keep you updated!