cooking 'crass'

i taught/hosted my first cooking/english class tonight.
i got 5 students and i'll get to teach them twice a month :
kumiko, sumiyo, rie, naomi, and miwa.

i tried (and i should have tested this earlier but i thought it was foolproof) a pound cake,
and it totally overflowed from the baking dish to the bottom of the oven
and started burning
*grimaces* not my best first impression...

i had to let them go early because they have kids and family to tend to,
but i let the pound cake bake some more and it turned out really well,
so i hope the teaching liaison, tamae, will deliver the finished pound cake to the students tomorrow

i think we'll go easier next time and try something from a box...like cookies.

their english was great for first timers and i was totally shocked to find that they were in their mid-to-late 30s. and here i am, 25, no kids, teaching them to cook/bake...
it should be the other way around, huh?

i think the best part of teaching tonight was that they were repeating
'slowly' over and over = and it sounded like 'srowry',
adding flour and sugar, but one of them, sumiyo,
was just dumping the ingredients in and naomi and miwa were going nuts
with the electric mixer, getting cake batter everywhere.
it was hilarious. and then we started talking about dislikes and sumiyo said
" i disrike my husband ".
i don't think japanese talk about things like that,
much less in public or with someone they meet for the first time,
but i appreciate their candidness and honesty, whichever,
which makes me feel like they're not afraid to show their opinions and not afraid of nonconformity.

i think i'm going to like this class alot =)