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Kabocha Soup!
1 onion (￥66, 44 Cal ( Read more... ) -
Spelling
I`m marking tests. For this part, the students had to listen and fill in the blanks. A few of them correctly wrote "carrots." But the rest of the answers included:
carot
carots
carret
carrote
curit
carrt
carrout
carroto
karoto
karotto
calotto
calit
calot
callot
caliet
curries
crrote
colurot
curets
crries
currtit
caread
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For the last couple days third-year students have been suddenly stopping me in the hallways and asking to see my eyes. Umm, okay . . . I let them, and they stare intently for bit and then say stuff like, "yeah, they're black!" Huh ( Read more... ) -
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The school festival is coming up in a few days, and the kids are all working like crazy preparing for it. Just now, I was walking past the second-year classrooms, admiring all the props and things they`re making for their class plays. 3-3 had made enormous cardboard crocodiles, parts of a ship, and something that appeared to be a giant hat. Wait ( Read more... ) -
Why do I do this?
I was up until 5 AM last night. Mostly, I was playing mahjong solitaire. I was super tired and couldn`t even concentrate on the game. I wasn`t even enjoying it. It didn`t matter if I won or lost, I just kept playing game after game, all the while feeling a bit miserable and telling myself I should really go to bed ( Read more... ) -
The local news
I’ve been reading the local news a lot lately - not that there is much actual news. The weather, seasonal events, and cute little human interest stories dominate the headlines in a way that underlines how small and rural the area is. It’s nice. Around here, reading the local news is usually a warm, fuzzy experience ( Read more... ) -
enough already
Ok, I think I`ve had enough from one of those obnoxious third-year boys. The day before yesterday I was closing the windows in one of the classrooms after school, and he and a friend were in the courtyard below. He saw me, and yelled something about "oppai." Oh goody, I thought, now he`s saying something about breasts. This should be charming ( Read more... ) -
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Obnoxious third-year boys, in rapid Japanese: Hey, how old were you when you first had sex? How many times have you had sex? How many men have you slept with?Me, in rapid English: Oh my god, you guys, that is so freakin rude! I`m a teacher, you`re supposed to be respectful! Why the heck are you asking questions like that ( Read more... ) -
Right now I want
to drink coffee, which is extremely unusual for me, because I don`t like coffee, and I`m feeling rather hyper so I don`t even need its sweet caffeine-y goodness ( Read more... ) -
a non-event
The labeled tags sticking out of the petunia pots outside said “248,”but at the register my three pots rang up at 348 yen each. As I walked out of the store I briefly considered just letting it go, but then I grabbed one of the pots with a label and brought it back inside to the register. Every one was super nice, and I got 300 yen back ( Read more... )