Thursday

12 March
Today I taught Amy, my 8 year old student from Harrow. Her mother was delighted to see me.

“My husband has just come back from London,” she smiled and handed me a plate of biscuits. “From Marks and Spencers,” she said.

Amy waited until her mother had left the room and then beckoned me closer.

“I have something to tell you,” she said mysteriously.

“What?” I asked, rather predictably.

“Some of the pupils at Harrow in the sixth form are girlfriend and boyfriend!” she confided.

“Wow, really! That’s so naughty!” I said, feeling rather like Nong Oom. “Do you have a boyfriend?”

“Urgh! No way! Boys are so yucky. I like to have a girlfriend.”

After the class, I went to eat dinner at Pi Baby’s cafĂ©. I met a Taiwanese-American from New York called Bruce.

“Do you live here?” I asked. “Or are you just on holiday?”

“No, I live here. We have a business here. We buy jeans and sell them on the internet to folks back home.”

“How is it?” I asked.

“Yeah, pretty good. Been here doing it for just over a year now. It’s pretty cool because you get to work from home but you gotta be self disciplined though. Where you from?”

“England.”

“Oh ok. Which part?”

“Cornwall. Do you know it?”

“Yeah, been there once. Pretty wild huh?”

He took a foil packet out of his pocket and tried to stuff it into his bag. He caught me looking and laughed a little guiltily.

“Chinese Viagra,” he explained and showed it to me. “It’s for a friend of mine!” he added quickly. “Just come back from a business trip to China and bought a load of the stuff.”

He thrust the packet at me. “Here, you want it? Still got a tablet left. It’s not magic. It won’t give you unlimited hard-ons but it, you know, really gets the job done. It’ll like give you one long helleva rocket that’ll impress her! It’s for, you know, when you wanna show a girl just how tough you are! Take it about an hour before cos it’s not instant.”

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