Employment & Bondage

So I have a job now! It barely really counts as a "job," but it'll be a pleasant change to have money going into rather than out of my bank account. I'm tutoring a very sweet, Taiwanese girl in English once a week for two hours.

Our first meeting was much like that scene from a League of Their Own when Mae (Madonna) is teaching Shirley (Ann Cusack) how to read using an erotic novel. But imagine two twenty-something Asian girls at a crowded, yet quiet, outdoor coffee shop in Taiwan instead of two professional female baseball players on the back of a bus.

I brought her the only magazines I have here (Marie Claire and National Geographic) to practice reading. The article she chose was about Gossip Girl's (one of her favorite TV shows) lead actress Blake Lively and went something like this:

"She is wearing a pair of black tuxedo shorts, a white blouse opened just enough to hint at a delicate black bra, a pair of 5-inch Christian Louboutin heels...they look like bondage Mary Janes...her blonde mane is disheveled, her skin smooth and golden."

"ummm...what is bondage?"

I wasn't sure how to answer that, but next time I will definitely be choosing our reading materials much more carefully.

In case you have no idea what I'm talking about with the A League of Their Own reference, I just found the clip! It's about 30 seconds into this: