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8/20
Today was a really nice today.
First of all, I was lucky enough to hear a conversation between two old man teachers that went something like this but in Japanese,
“Hey, Tanaka-sensei, this Facebook thing, do you know it?”
“Facebook…Facebook…not really. I think my daughter uses it.”
“But what *is* it?”
“Social networking, right? That’s what I think.”
“Facebook, huh…I don’t get it. Whatever.”
I gave my self-introduction at the morning meeting and was a little nervous, but my Japanese is getting to the point where it’s fluent enough that I can just talk sometimes without thinking and without screwing up either. I gave out a lot of my omiyage, the chocolate covered pretzels, and everyone seemed to like them even though they were like, “Huh? Salty AND sweet??”
K-sen said my introduction was *perfect* which makes me feel really good, though I’m not sure he really meant flawless, that would be hard to believe lol After that he took me to get my foreigner registration card at city hall and on the way back we talked about graduation pictures and the like in our countries. Then he was like, “Yeah, but one thing students are really into here is…uh…what’s it called…”
“PURIKURA!” (those are photobooths where you can edit you pictures, if you remember)
“YOU KNOW IT??”
“I’VE DONE IT!”
“Wwhhaaat?”
And we bonded right then and there.
Mumbles-sensei also came up to me today and told me I’d be having a welcome party from the English department, just when I started thinking I wouldn’t. Time to be scared!
I was going to run some errands, but I thought I’d just try to stay at work really late instead. In the end, even though I only had to work until 4:35 and I stayed until 6:30, I still felt bad because I was still the first teacher to leave school!!
Today was a really nice today.
First of all, I was lucky enough to hear a conversation between two old man teachers that went something like this but in Japanese,
“Hey, Tanaka-sensei, this Facebook thing, do you know it?”
“Facebook…Facebook…not really. I think my daughter uses it.”
“But what *is* it?”
“Social networking, right? That’s what I think.”
“Facebook, huh…I don’t get it. Whatever.”
I gave my self-introduction at the morning meeting and was a little nervous, but my Japanese is getting to the point where it’s fluent enough that I can just talk sometimes without thinking and without screwing up either. I gave out a lot of my omiyage, the chocolate covered pretzels, and everyone seemed to like them even though they were like, “Huh? Salty AND sweet??”
K-sen said my introduction was *perfect* which makes me feel really good, though I’m not sure he really meant flawless, that would be hard to believe lol After that he took me to get my foreigner registration card at city hall and on the way back we talked about graduation pictures and the like in our countries. Then he was like, “Yeah, but one thing students are really into here is…uh…what’s it called…”
“PURIKURA!” (those are photobooths where you can edit you pictures, if you remember)
“YOU KNOW IT??”
“I’VE DONE IT!”
“Wwhhaaat?”
And we bonded right then and there.
Mumbles-sensei also came up to me today and told me I’d be having a welcome party from the English department, just when I started thinking I wouldn’t. Time to be scared!
I was going to run some errands, but I thought I’d just try to stay at work really late instead. In the end, even though I only had to work until 4:35 and I stayed until 6:30, I still felt bad because I was still the first teacher to leave school!!
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