My Weird Kids and Other Stories

So I have concluded that I weird kids.... Its not yet a law, but given time I'm sure it would be. Here are a few whys to back my theory up .....

For some reason, beginning yesterday, my kids, mainly the boys, have been staring at mi, then laughing, then whispering to each other. I have no idea what the are staring at or why the are laughing, and it is beginning to be very odd. 

The girls, in their quest to speak English, have taken up to asking mi odd questions with regards to a certain female teacher. The first day I walked into one of the classes, a student asked mi if I liked Miss. K.... I'm like huh? Then she rephrased and said 'Do you love Miss K?' Against my instructions, I had to ask her to say it in Japanese cause I was certain she was not phrasing her question properly. A lass, she was. I laughed that off. But over time, I've gotten random questions related to said Miss K. All suggesting some sort of feelings or something. Such as 'Do you think Miss K is cute?', or 'Do you like Miss K with short or long hair (after her hair cut)?' and so on.... I'm choosing not to read anything into all that. 

The adorable side exists too, thank God. There are the oh so adorable ones who run up to mi and say 'You are very cute!!' all the time - mainly a group of girls with messed up teeth (bless their hearts). Or the boys that debate, in Japanese - in front of mi - which one of them should tell mi I'm cute.... Then, as they all lack the balls, give up giggling and run away. 

A few laughs for my day....

xo

School Crazy

The main theme for school today, was mi sleepy and cold. From the time I stepped into the school compound till I left.... I get sleepy when I am cold, so you could say one affects the other. 

Anyhu, I had the pleasure, for the sake of politeness, of being once again flung into the dark with this lovable teacher (of of the many) I teach with. He told mi on the first day of school he never has any idea what he is going to do in class till the class time. 

I should have known he was not one for jokes. 

We had a lesson today, and after I had spent a good amount of time coming up with questions based on my last under the bus adventure - courtesy of yours truly as well - I cant say I was shocked to walk into the class and hear the kids say he already did that activity with them, then hear him say lets do another activity then begin with lesson one!! 

When I had finally gotten accustomed to the pages in lesson one and had mentally fine tuned my act for the next class, we walked in and he chose a different page for the lesson!! By 12:30 I was caught between blowing up from frustration versus from hunger. Needless to say, hunger won. Besides, getting frustrated would do mi no good, I have long realized in life. 

For this guy, I have learned one thing - I just need to ask him what the students did in the last class, so I prepare myself for possible lessons from that, the future or something totally unrelated. lol.

Moving on.

I walked around the sports clubs today, and played some basket ball!! I don't want to brag (who am I kidding, lol), but I think I was pretty good (if you compare mi now with my last froggy attempts). Might even consider playing from time to time, though it means hanging out with the kids who can't decide if they have a crush on mi or think I'm an alien they are fascinated with. Either way, as long as they can't speak English, we are both spared from mi having to try my best to be as polite as possible while failing miserably and hurting them.... or worse, getting in a situation where I need to apologize. Thats just both annoying and cumbersome. 

Final topic change.

So, I climbed a tree at school today. 

.... pause for effect .... ^ ^

The tennis girls, whose names and faces I better remember tomorrow, got one of their balls stuck in a tree. I was on my way home, and walked on over - nosy mi. Well at first I tried to find out, with English (like that was possible), if the kids were allowed to climb the trees in school. They said no, but I am more sure they thought I asked if they could climb it, cause a few seconds after the 'no' one of them stepped forward and began to climb. She didn't go too far before she climbed back down. 

So mi, being the movie-scene-reenactment-lover that I am, decided to climb it. 

I guess climbing trees is kinda like riding a bike, you never actually forget. That and the combination of a little prayer, I got up high enough to get the ball down for the girls. It was quite amusing to mi cause as soon as I started climbing, they began scrambling around for English words like 'stop, don't do it, come down, it's dangerous - I know, I was shocked at that one too' and so on. lol. So, though on a regular day I can't get them to cough up more than the basic 'how are you, hello, my name is....' with my tree climbing affair, I got them to use dictionary words as well!! I should say yay mi!! haha. 

Anyway, they were so scared I would fall, they called a teacher passing by to come ask mi to stop in English - bless his heart. He also joined in the unanimous search for the English words for 'get down from there you moron, you might break something....'

Mercifully, I got the ball down, got my round of applause and was on my way. Now that both branches of the school was adequately represented, I am sure I would not hear the end of it, or even close, tomorrow. All students would know I climb trees, and the lovely teachers would also like to hear more about mi and my tree climbing history tomorrow as well....

Speaking of teachers, I forgot to find out from the teachers I have tomorrow what the lessons would be on - not that I would be likely to get any answers.... on that note, I'm out....

xo

Male Make Up Section et al

Before I begin, my door just randomly closed a second ago, which is kinda creepy since I'm home alone....just wanted to write that out.

Now then.

Today was semi-uneventful - only in the sense that I went sight seeing Japan. lol. Well my friend and I discovered a new town (based on recommendations) called Makuhari, not far from ours. We walked a bit so I am perfectly exhausted, but got to find two super stores and a series of semi-moving pedestrian bridges. They probably weren't moving but we felt they were lol.

All in all, it was a pretty regular day walking, but more fun cus I had nice company.

Anyway, when we got to the first shopping area - I refuse to call it a mall simply cause its not big enough by definition, we were a little taken aback to find out they had a male make up section.... I mean I've always known the celebrities wear make up, even in the States, so thats nothing new, but to think there was actually a section in the mall dedicated to make up for guys - foundation et al - was down right shocking....lol. Unfortunately, I forgot to take a picture of the scene, so you'd have to take my word for it. If I happen to sport another section at a different mall - as I seem to believe there are a lot in this awesome country - I'd be sure to update this with a very nice picture.

In other news - the et al section - my neighbors seem to have resurfaced. I was starting to get the feeling I lived next door to an 80 year old couple or something, seeing as I couldn't hear a sound through these super thin walls in the apartment, but alas, I was wrong. And from the sound of it - NO I am not eves dropping, its difficult not to be a part of their discussion with the lack of a sound barrier - its a young lad and his girlfriend. Though funny enough, their conversation sounds more like my sims' conversations than normal human convo. Anyhu, seems they plan on getting busy tonight (if you get my drift), so I need to head over to my headphones asap. 
Of course, the ones above mi, ever faithful, continue to stomp up and down their apartment like they are training for some elephant parade. 
I'm not complaining though. It at least lets mi know I am not the only one in the world. 

For now, ciao, my Korean movie calleth.