Super Bowl of Mah Jongg Complete

Today was my Super Bowl of Mah Jongg teaching. I had three, back to back to back new card Orientation classes at the Carolina Country Club. There is no bigger day in my whole year. I had almost 300 people in class today and they were the most attentive students.

The biggest class was the afternoon class with 125 people in the room, but you could still hear a pin drop because they paid such close attention. It made me so happy to share all the new card news with so many wonderful friends.

I got to the club at 7:45 this morning, just to make sure everything worked right. Everything at CCC always works right. Gus, the manager is so helpful and supportive of Mah Jongg at the club and he spent some time with me between classes extolling the club’s love of Mah Jongg. It is so great when a club get’s how Mah Jongg is good for the club.

My morning class found a couple more mistakes in my PowerPoint. I tried to fix the mistakes before the next class, but I found another. So tomorrow I have to go through it again and see if I caught the mistakes. They were funny ones like calling last year 2203.

Thanks to all the people who helped me today. Bit and Mary Jo, who preordered my lunch and then manned the sign in table. Mair and Megan who texted me which slide numbers had the mistakes. Megan and the young ones who helped me back up and carry things to the car.

It takes a village to run this show. The hardest part is keeping all the registered students straight and in the right classes. When people Venmo and don’t put down which class I have to chase them to figure it out because I have 15 classes registering at the same time. When people text me right before class and ask me a question like, “Which room are we in?” These people don’t understand I am busy teaching another class.

I finished the cocktail class, that’s what I named the 6pm class, and I was elated to have made it through 9 hours of stand-up constant talking without losing my voice. I am dead tired. My feet hurt, but tomorrow is an easier because that class will be a zoom class. When I say easier, it’s physically. Technologically it’s much harder and I have Russ as IT support and my friend Deanna as zoom manager. I figure the Zoom class will be a cocktail class too! It makes Mah Jongg even more fun.