I just wanted to know where these were, so I could keep track of them somewhere.
I really have no idea what I did to piss off Jake, but man that guy likes to take the bad angle and go far with it.
So now I'm a gymnastics coach, and parents are very happy with what the kids are getting out of class. Sure they're learning back handsprings, handstands on parallel bars, and the like... but they're also learning respect for others, they're learning how to spot their friends and feel accomplished when other people learn things, instead of feeling jealous, or bad that they aren't yet accomplishing those skills. Some of the kids are pretty competetive and egotistic, and I'm breakin that down - I used to be one of those kids myself. Its amazing how much faster you learn shit when you aren't feeling emotions that take your energy away, and instead feel motivated.
These danish kids came to the gym this sunday - like 20 of them, who will be sleeping in the gym for 2 nights... they did a show that was really hillarious, felt like some rediculous utube video. Afterwards they gave a clinic and we learned some acrobatics from them, and they attempted to show us some trampoline stuff.
This gymnast from florida that I met from wow was here for the weekend too, really funny that she actually knew some of the people my roomate knows from gymnastics meets in minnosota.
We played a drinking version of warcraft where u take a shot when you die, and remove a piece of clothing when you kill a boss. Was quite fun =)
Anyway, I guess I'm posting because I kinda realized that this gymnastics coaching job is way better than working with a different set of kids every week, having to teach them all the same shit over and over. Its fun to actually be able to know that you've taught someone something, and not have to go reteach it again... well at least not too often. I did some stupid things at camp to get that feeling of "crew" or like.. family kinda... but 1 week just really isn't enough.. story time with the guys kinda made us all feel like we knew eachother somewhat, but really some of the older kids could really tell that in a week they wouldn't know any of the people there and thus didn't give a shit about making connections with them, or even making friendships, because they would just have to feel like they were losing them in a few days.
I think the problem with Jake was that he never really got to know me, and makes blanket judgements on me based on the reports from Taia who knew I hated her and thus hated me? I'm not really sure. But its annoying when someone calls you out on something, you reply to set them straight, and they don't apologize, but instead just ignore you and continue on with the story the way they wrote it.
As far as I know he still thinks I flirted with girls at camp, and intentionally taught kids to disrespect authority, or at least thinks I wasn't trying to stop doing that.
Or maybe he was just jealous that the kids would do whatever I told them to and I was actually a great leader for them, and is acting out his bitterness by posting dirt?
Another thing - I lead a guild in warcraft and it was eerie the kind of 'authority disrespect' parallells that existed. Some kid actually said 'I'm not doing anything you tell me to unless Zugger tells me to' which was a general attitude that people in the guild had... if I wasn't on it was hard for the other officers to get ppl to do things. And I'm realizing that I can do a lot more in the way of teaching people to respect other people, particularly authority in general... but I'm still kinda mystified as to how I earned everyones respect or how I came to be the leader of the largest guild on that server... I didn't even want to be, I just have a weird following of people, namely high school kids.
I can tell them to do the stupidest things and they just will, and they'll have fun doing it. Whereas other officers can't get ppl to do things as easily, let alone stupid things.
Lets jog up the hill!! Yeah sounds fun!
I honestly have no idea how I could have gotten the kids to respect Taia, when I didn't myself. That's something I'm still sorta pondering in the back of my head. Perhaps I still need to learn respect for authority myself... but maybe thats why the kids identify with me so much, because I don't have that. /shrug
[ posted by seth at 07/10/2006 03:06:30 PM ] [ link ] [ 9 responses ]
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the best game ever
So I work in a house in downtown Santa Barbara. Every once in a while the neighborhood kids knock on the door with some insane "bother your neighbor" type things like jog athons, cookies, etc.
Well, yesterday the most brilliant game ever was being played.
"Find something better."
They knocked on the door and said "do you have anything bigger or better than a lava lamp".
After some questioning, we realized they had the lava lamp in their hands, which another neighbor had given them. They give you the lava lamp in exchange for something they perceive to be bigger or better than it.
Conceivably it is something you no longer want, or are bored with, so despite its value being bigger or better, you are willing to trade it for the lava lamp.
I gotta find some sap kids to try this with. I'll offer them 10$ to play the game for an hour in exchange for whatever they end up with. Heck I'll even drive them to the rich neighborhoods. The only problem with those is that the frequency of exchange won't be as great because the houses are so far away from eachother.
Hmm. I wonder what properties the neighborhoods would have for optimal trades.
I also wonder at what point will someone decide to meta out of the game by just buying the item from the kids. "This 20$ bill is better than that lava lamp.".
Hmm. I'd need to find some smart kids or they'd get duped too easy and anything good given to them would be gone in a second.
[ posted by seth at 03/25/2004 12:00:37 AM ] [ link ] [ 2 responses ]
