Class Over and Brazilian BBQ

So yesterday my Color Foundation and Two Dimensional Composition class finished.  I start a new class on monday.  In the art school they schedule classes in three-week blocks.
So I threw a party for the last day which I thought would just be food and music....but......that turned into a talent show.  First, two students left and came back dressed up as a karate guru and a witch...they were both males....hilarious.  So that turned into a photo shoot and they all wanted to take pics with me.  Then out of nowhere they started arranging their chairs in a circle.....and I was like....heh? So they pick this one girl to get up and she turns into the mc and does a pretty awesome rendition of a Chinese song.  The Chinese love to sing and perform I have realized. So after her we had about 6 other girls sing, one guy did Taichi, one guy played his guitar, the witch did a jig, a couple girls did a choreographed dance routine, and then they all looked at me and my friend Mike who came.....like, watchu gonna do? I was like.....dayum.  So Mike did a some breakin and I pulled out the three stooges floor spin, and then we did a sample of our Thriller dance were doing for the students on Wednesday.

My students are awesome! They gave me several presents.  For one, they gave me a wooden jar sort of thing for your pens with Chinese characters on it that say, 'work hard.'  Then they gave me a notebook that they all signed and wrote me a note in.  One student gave me a brewski....haha (automatic A+). I was like should I drink a beer in class.........?...that would be epic.....but nah, I'll chill on that. And lastly, that same student made me this amazing mask-like portrait of a famous/traditional Beijing opera character with a wood backing and made out of sand and finished with some sort of glue-like epoxy.  It is awesome! It looks like it could be sold at a fine arts store for a lot of money, it's not some thrown together piece of arts and crafts. I was blown away by their kindness and very appreciative.

And last night we went to a brazilian bbq place where you can eat all you want and drink all of the home-made brew for 39 quy, or roughly 6 bucks. They come around with all this wonderfully seasoned meat on sword like metal sticks and shear off the meat onto your plate write in front of you with a rambo knife! It's awesome to say the least....and yuppp.....I definitely tried the chicken heart and pig tongue....seriously! What!? Quite scrumptious.....