So yesterday arvo I went over the BOE and helped out by chatting to the middle school kids who are going on the trip to Australia this year. We were just supposed to help them practice their English. Some of them were quite good and others were quite bad, couldn't say anything without reading it off a piece of paper. There was one boy in particular who was quite good and really keen which was good to see. The high school kids can be quite apathetic at times and act completely disinterested in everything. One of the boys said he hates comedy films and doesn't like to laugh. What a ball of fun! True to his word he refused to crack a smile the whole time. He also doesn't eat fish, hard to get away with in Japan, and loves computer games. I predict a lonely future. The girls were all giggly and kept talking amongst themselves in Japanese for ages before coming out with a question in English. They didn't know that I could speak Japanese so I could understand what they were trying to say before they attempted to say anything in English which was quite funny. They were mucking around for ages before one of them finally asked me "Do you have a loverman?" I said I had 3 which made them collapse for a further 5 minutes into giggles and exclamations - all in Jap of course.
Anyway, this all wound up an hour early so I just went home and had a doze before heading back for a speech by a local ALT who is going back to England tomorrow. Afterwards we headed to a Japanese woman's house in Kasaoka and she had a massive spread out for us which was delicious. She was a very funny lady, most un-Japanese. She wrote a book and had it published privately a few years ago and gave us each a copy. I was reading it on the train and it is quite funny so far. About her travel adventures in England when she went over for an ex-student's wedding. I had a few glasses of shochu, a type of Japanese sake, and ended up of course having to take the train home and leave my car in Kasaoka so I had to go back and retrieve it this morning. Slight head pounding. It is hot hot though today so that will soon beat any hangover out of me. Tonight there is some kind of festival happening in Kasaoka, with fireworks, so I may head back there and see what I see.
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