Where did all the Motivation Go?

Today is Friday. It is my last prep period of the day before simply giving a test 7th hour to end my day/week. I have been productive all day so far and am completely planned for my Saturday classes tomorrow.

Needless to say, I currently find it literally impossible to even lift a pencil to my lesson plan book. Motivation is somewhat of a silly concept that doesn't apply to my mindset in any sense of the word right now. So let me procrastinate further by giving you a preview of my weekend!

This weekend should be epic by any means of measure. For one thing, we have been working for 12 days straight at this point (teaching Saturday classes will make it a lucky 13 days in a row) because of parents day last weekend. All of the teachers are dragging and in great need of a break. So tonight we have a little outing planned to downtown Taichung. It is the second weekend of the Taichung Jazz Festival in People's Park and a bunch of us are going to check it out. It should be a nice evening of music and friends outside in the beautiful weather Taiwan is experiencing right now.

Tomorrow I will teach only one session because my second session of Seniors are all taking the TOEFL exam (basic English proficiency exam that universities in the U.S. require for international students). Should be a pretty easy day of teaching and then I'm actually free until Monday at 8 a.m.!

To celebrate this real weekend, we are going to go to a KTV on Saturday night. KTV is the Taiwanese version of karaoke. I'm not entirely sure why it's called KTV but it's pretty funny because it's a little different than what you're probably visualizing. The Taiwanese are very reserved people when in public so the way a KTV is set up is like a hotel. You get a group of friends together and rent one KTV room for a few hours. Then you just sing in a room full of only your friends. It's not like the bad karaoke you see in bars in the States because you know all of the stupid people singing in a KTV- you are actually friends with them!

The best part about a KTV is that you can bring in your own food and beverage. So we will be enjoying some really classy 7-11 food (you know, like seaweed flavored Frito Lays) and Taiwan Beers while listening to the smooth sound of our coworkers/co-people try their hand at classic pop songs from the 90's. It should be great.

4:05 can't come soon enough! Look for pictures from this weekend in a few days!