A worked-thru Weekend

The following week was Sports day for the children at my school. Which means, working on the weekend. Dreary misery.

As it happened, this weekend was Ingrid's birthday party. Formal dress occasion with platters of food and a karaoke sign up sheet. Ingrid had requested that Louise and I do a duet for her birthday. This meant, I had to drive to the City on Saturday evening after work, and drive back home Saturday night so I could work on Sunday. Not the most fun you could imagine. I couldn't drink, and had to leave the party early (like 11) to get home around midnight.

We first went out to eat. We thought, we should eat first, in case the food sucks at the party. So we all went out to Dear (Italian Restaurant) in our finest dress. Louise and I looked like prom dates because earlier that day we had purchased impromptu pink rose corsages for the both of us. As it turns out, they can make any flower into a corsage in 10 minutes at this flower place we randomly stopped in...

Dinner was lovely, and then it was off to the party. We were one of the first people there and Ingrid was happy to see us. We made ourselves at home, ate a little drank a little (except for me :( ). Then the singing started. Louise and I were singing the 007 melody "Nobody Does it Better" by Carly Simon. We replaced all the words "baby" with "Ingrid" so the song would sing "Ingrid, you're the best!"

It was a little strange doing karaoke on stage with a mic to a room full of people. I know that's the way it is in America, but here, you never see that really... It was too noisy and almost no one heard us, but at least we had fun. Later that evening, James and Louise did Supercalifragilisticexpyalidocious from Mary Poppins. (Louise discovered beforehand that Julie Andrews either screwed up or could not do it when she was supposed to be saying the whole thing backwards, because she says "docious ali expy listic fragil cali repus." The cheeky lady...Louise couldn't do it either, without writing it on her hand.)


Cake came out, everyone sang. It was a lovely birthday. And sadly I had to head home early so I could go to work the next morning. Oh well.

PICTURES!!!!

posted by Living and Teaching in Tokushima @ 10:47 AM Comments: 0