Mah Jongg Student Love

I know I am the luckiest person on earth. Not just because I have a loving family and cutest dog, (who by the way does not have cancer), but because at this late stage in life I get to do the most fun job and meet the nicest people.

I can honestly say in the tens and tens of thousands of people I have taught there are very few I just didn’t like. There was that one girl who arrived at class drunk and drank all the way through class who heckled me like I was doing stand up and not teaching her a game, but outside of her I can’t really say I don’t care for all my students.

It is a pretty good bet if you end up in one of my classes I am going to like you. So when High Hampton called me to ask if there was something I could do for two students who signed up for this class before we changed the dates and because of the change they were missing one day of class, I offered to have dinner with them and then play a little if they wanted that as a consolation.

I was fairly certain I would like them even though I didn’t know them. They were not so certain and they did some research on me. Well thankfully after finding my blog they didn’t cancel coming to class all together.

After class today I met Paula and Layla for dinner. They were delightful. Since they were in the class of 50 I had not really gotten to know them and it was so fun to learn all about them. It was a most fun evening ending with playing a little mahj. They promised to return next year, which I look forward to.

As they left two sweet girls, Kate and Kerry who had come in January and returned to this class came in to play mah Jongg followed by their husbands. One husband said, “If you want to know who your biggest grouppes are they are right there.” I adore them because they challenged me in class in January and then came back this weekend and told me that they did what I taught them and have been winning so much more. I had to get a picture with them since they promise to come back again when I come back.

Then there is Mary who came in January and is back. She is a major student of Mah Jongg and she follows all the major Mah Jongg influencers and teachers. This afternoon after class she read me a text from one of those mah Jongg big wigs she is friends with. Mary had told her something I had taught Mary. This teacher had never done it that way and she told Mary she would think about it. She recently texted Mary and said she had thought about it and said, “I think that teacher you had at High Hampton must be very smart.” Wasn’t that nice of Mary to tell me that? I think it was also great that as an expert herself, she even thought about it and considered learning something new.

I know that I am just so lucky and am so grateful to meet these nice people and to have them come back and spend time with me more than once.