I encounter things everyday that make me reflect and others that make me laugh out loud. I want to share a few with you:
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On an assignment where students talk about their daily schedule:
"Next, I lurned the English."
Looks like I'm doing my job quite well, aye?
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On a journal assignment where I asked kids what they wanted to be when they grew up:
"I want to be a pavement."
In all fairness, in the Japanese language they do call people who work in various jobs the actual noun that is the job. But, of course it totally cracked me up. What he meant to say was he wants to be a construction worker.
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In a speech about what their future dreams are, one girl said this:
"I want to be happy because I have happiness in my heart and I love to be happy."
Aww...
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A conversation between myself and the teacher that sits next to me about what I should wear for the sports assembly on a Saturday.
Me: Saito Sensei, on Saturday what kind of clothes should I wear? Casual clothes or work clothes?
Saito: hmm...yeah, what should we do?
Me: Do you think people will wear sports clothing or suits?
Saito: I'm not sure...hmm....maybe...hmm....
silence Me: What will you wear?
Saito: I don't know. Maybe um...I'm not sure.
Me: Ok...
silence Me: Well, I'll just wear work clothes to be safe.
silence Saito: Oh! But, you should wear sunblock. It might be sunny.
Me: Ok. Thanks.
And that's what many of my conversations are like. No answers, no resolutions. You'll be happy to know I did not show up in ONLY sunblock, but also work clothing. I guessed correctly.
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Again, in my adult class, we have a terrible mini-text book that had a dialogue talking about a flying car with retractable wings. Retractable was a particularly difficult vocabulary word for them, but when one guy made the connection with retractable headlights on sports cars he told everyone and viola! Understanding. This same guy began to churn over this word...I could see he was working on something else but we continued on. 5 minutes later he said:
"Ah! Retractable! My wife has retractable horns! (puts his fingers on his head like devil horns - a symbol in Japan that
means someone is angry) She has retractable horns, sometimes she has them, sometimes she doesn't."
Everyone had a good hard laugh about this one.
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Hope you enjoyed it!
By the way. In answer to the question: "Did you really eat all of that bento box?" The answer is yes. I nibbled on everything except the snail, couldn't get that down. I couldn't finish the entire bento because of the sheer size, but I do find myself eating and
enjoying crazy food everyday!
