Archive for 'Japan' Category
Just in case
12 April 2008透かす [すかす, sukasu] (1) to look through, (2) to hold up to the light, (3) to make an opening, to leave space, to space (lines), to prune (trees), (4) to fart without making a sound
Whoops!
9 April 2008I’ve asked practically every time for every ceremony and I was told, nah, suit wasn’t really necessary for elementary. And it was mostly true. Outside of the principal people just wore slightly nicer than work stuff. So I played it a bit risky for the opening ceremony and found my risk to be right. No suit needed. There was the welcoming ceremony for the new first grade students today, so heck that can’t be as big as the OPENING ceremony right? The first ceremony of the year has gotta be bigger eh?
I realized I was wrong when I saw some mothers in kimonos bringing their children to school. And every single teacher in a suit.
Whoops!
Sexy time looks for you.
8 April 2008ワン切り 【ワンぎり; wan’giri】 (n) one mobile telephone ring (used by companies, usually sex-related, to register a phone number on a mobile in the hope people will return the call)
I have no idea what’s going on
7 April 2008Today was the opening ceremony for the new school year. This involved a lot of standing around, clapping and me only getting a tenuous grasp of what is going on.
Basically the principal at this one school is leaving to another school, along with some other teachers. The new principal here was the principal at one of my other schools. All the teachers are shuffled around entirely and aside from the fifth grade teachers becoming the sixth grade teachers I see very little rhyme or reason to the changes that actually took place! It’s bad enough that with 9 schools I’m incapable of remembering names of teachers but now “sixth grade male teacher at School X” could very well be replaced with first grade female teacher from another school.
I am going to be so confused this month!
Take that, Mother!
26 March 2008All those years of saying I have shitty hair. PAH!
Japanese girls found my hair to be extremely さらさら. Take that!
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Sigh.
Sweet, Delicious Corn
10 March 2008My one friend asked me a while back whether or not I also thought the milk we drink every day at school kinda tasted like corn on the cob.
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Damn, he’s right.
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It’s still delicious.
Amazing Fucking Grace.
22 February 2008I swear it seems every month there’s something that Japan embraces so hard that it almost hurts. I have heard Amazing Grace so much this month. I can’t explain it. It’s just being used everywhere. Did I somehow not notice it before? Why am I noticing it now? Why does everything play Amazing Fucking Grace?
PK THUNDER!
12 February 2008Sometimes I wonder about the sanity of some of my students. I just had a kid last class yelling “PK THUNDER! PK FIRE!” the whole time. I was trying to crack up but one time I yelled “PK FLASH!” right back at him.
I don’t think he’s unlocked Ness yet.
Holy Merciful Christ
9 February 2008
You know it’s bad when…
5 February 2008Your AC unit was accidentally switched back to cooling mode and it was still making the apartment somewhat warmer.