Working girl...

Well it has been about 3 weeks in China and Tracy has a little gig tonight (and I was thinking I would start looking in January – ha!). My new found friend Amy has been tutoring a 15 year old Shanghainese girl in English/History and Math/Science. However, since Amy is more the English/History expert she was a little concerned when Chloe (student) started asking her about Watson and Crick and “what is a phosphate group.” I said, I know what all that is…but do I have to do that math part too? As long as it wasn’t geometry I figured I’d be fine. She said it was Algebra 2 – solving for X and Y. Yikes, the cobwebs in my brain make me a little light headed – FOIL? What??? I quick review of DNA shouldn’t take too long, I just hope there is a Math for dummies primer online that I can refer to before this evening.

I told Amy that I would start out with picking up one of her 4 evenings – but just talking to Will about it stressed me out – how do I get there, how do I get home…is it safe? I mean really, it is from 6-9pm one day a week, good grief. Will said I didn’t have to do it and would it cut into our evenings together? ? etc…. I actually started crying. Geesh, the tears of stress flow so easily here. I have become a person of indecision – It is amazing what a scare-dy cat I have become. I can bring it up to 2 evenings a week if I want to for a total of – 6 HOURS a week – ooohhh aaaaahhh. It is $50US dollars a session – so that is actually some decent spending money if it works out. I already have a place to spend it too – I finally made it to the fabric market yesterday and bought this great reversible chocolate brown, pistachio green shantung silk asian jacket. It cost $31. So I just need to get out some of my favorite shirts, skirts and go nuts. The girls were talking about getting cashmere coats made for the winter season!! Oh la la.