Mr.Miyagi

Last night while chatting away with a friend on msn she asked me this question “how was your weekend”. I was a bit stunned as to the question. In my mind it must have been Wednesday, Thursday or something like that. Least did I expect what I was about to find out. It was 19:00 on Sunday night. This came as a shocking realization that I have missed a couple of days… or did I gain a couple of days? I was totally lost for time, day, date etc. This must be the affect that a holiday has on you. All the traveling, locating, relocating, visas, people, experiences has made me live on my own time in my own little world. It is like you are constantly going somewhere, not really knowing where, and not knowing how you get there or with whom. I love the unknown!! I have to admit that it is not always easy, but doing it on my own opposed to doing it with a family goes a really long way.

My children would have been culturally, ethnically and locality screwed!! Thus, a good reason for me to do all these things now, while I am still young and healthy. I think doing these things when you are older is not impossible; you just need better time management. Who wants to go see the world with a bag full of pills? I mean, instead of keeping track and schedule of trains and other means of public transport, you have this bag of pills that fills your diary. Ok, that is me totally giving the old folks a hard time.

I personally would still love to be traveling the world when I am an old man. And no better place than deepest darkest Africa with all its corruption, brilliant public transport and health services. Oh yes, that is what I want to do. I think now you understand the reason I am not married yet. Not every woman wants to spend the last couple of years of their lives like that. No, your old day has to be comfortable in an old people’s home with male nurses sticking pills up places you didn’t know you had places. Mmm… I think it is quite clear to you where I would love to retire one day. I must be getting old writing about this today. To be honest I didn’t really have anything to say but just thought I would say hi and let you in on a couple of my thoughts.

Talking about old people, I have been inspired to see the amount of older people still traveling the world and teaching English and other languages. At the University I find myself at the moment I would say 85% of teachers here are 45 and older and we are about 50 teachers all together. You can do the math, mine has never been the greatest. This gives me great excitement as to my future!! My hero is a 73 year old male teacher from Japan that I met in Linfen. He is the nicest little old man you have seen. Reminds you of Mr.Miyagi from karate kid, and this is the name I baptised him with. I saw him the one afternoon walking down the street with four 20-25year old Chinese girls arms locked in and a smile on his face. A couple of days later I asked him if he enjoyed what he was doing. He said "I love the students and they love me… therefore I am a very happy man". Mmm… I would be as well with 4 female students totally overwhelming themselves over me.

Little Mr.Miyagi old Japanese man, you are my idol!! (Mr.Miyagi is the old man sitting between the girl with the pink top on his left and the sexy guy on his right.)

(Linyi City, Shandong Province, China)