{"id":2268,"date":"2014-10-29T09:29:14","date_gmt":"2014-10-29T02:29:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gordonandjudy.com\/?p=2268"},"modified":"2014-10-29T09:29:14","modified_gmt":"2014-10-29T02:29:14","slug":"bit-by-a-haunted-house-102714","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gordonandjudy.com\/?p=2268","title":{"rendered":"Bit by a haunted house!  10\/27\/14"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is a weird schedule at my school this week because of mid-term tests. The surprise APEC holiday coming up next week threw everyone a curve. Our mid-term tests are scheduled for Tues. thru Thur. for grades 10 &amp; 11. Next week, 12<sup>th<\/sup> grade mid-term tests will be held. They\u2019re on a different schedule because of \u201cEarly Decision\u201d deadlines on Nov. 1.<\/p>\n<p>This affects me because they have declared today (Monday) will be Thursday classes. My first class is early so I get out of the apartment quickly and arrive at school around 7:25, planning to set-up my room, etc. As I arrive on the 4<sup>th<\/sup> floor and my classroom, there is a large black curtain hanging over the entrance to the hallway, and also over my classroom door. There is a sign posted (in Chinese) which I\u2019m told says \u201cStay Out.\u201d I took a quick peek in the door, and parents have been in the classroom decorating for a Haunted House for the Friday night party.<\/p>\n<p>I go looking for someone who can tell me where I need to meet my classes. No one is around who knows, so I just sit down and wait. Finally, five minutes before 8:00, an administrator comes in. She doesn\u2019t know anything about it, but makes a call to the logistics manager. He tells us my stuff has been moved to another classroom. This is one of those times when a short email about the classroom change would have helped.<\/p>\n<p>We move into the new room and students start setting up chairs while I set-up the sound system and projector. We get started about 15 minutes late, and I still can\u2019t get the sound system to work. Everything seems to be turned on and plugged in, lights are flashing, but no sound from the speakers. Oh well!<\/p>\n<p>After classes, I worked a little bit, but with all our instruments and stands in the middle of the Haunted House somewhere, we won\u2019t have our shortened rehearsal this afternoon (we\u2019d planned ahead for a short rehearsal because of tests tomorrow). I eat lunch at the school, and start to head home when Jehanne, French\/Yoga\/Theater teacher finds me and we decide to work on juggling. She juggles as a hobby, and since I\u2019ve done a little bit, we\u2019re exchanging ideas and practicing on \u201cpairs\u201d exchanges. Don\u2019t I have anything better to do? Nope! Not today!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is a weird schedule at my school this week because of mid-term tests. The surprise APEC holiday coming up next week threw everyone a curve. Our mid-term tests are scheduled for Tues. thru Thur. for grades 10 &amp; 11. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/gordonandjudy.com\/?p=2268\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gordonandjudy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2268"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/gordonandjudy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/gordonandjudy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gordonandjudy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gordonandjudy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2268"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/gordonandjudy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2268\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2269,"href":"http:\/\/gordonandjudy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2268\/revisions\/2269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gordonandjudy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gordonandjudy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gordonandjudy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}