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June 27, 2007
interview fun
currently i'm giving interview tests to all my kids. mainly it consists of a 1 minute introduction section where i ask them as many of 9 questions as i can and then a 1 min free response section following one of three topics.
keep in mind, low level school where they answer my `how are you?` with `how are you?`
there were two kids in particular who i asked the same question:
what is your favorite food?
best answer so far: meat.
i'm starting to think i should be more specific...
Posted by Jeff at 03:44 PM | Comments (0)
i actually don't know what to think of this one...
i'll leave my friend anon for this one, but here's the skinny:
last night i had a dream where two of my friends were with me karaoke-ing (yes it's a verb) with a few other people and there was a girl who was giggling in a group of japanese people just off to our left. one of them came out and asked one of my best mates to come to their group really quickly for a bit. upon his return, he came back with a really large grin on his ear and said, and i quote (serious), `man, i couldn't be happier.` upon which i ask `what happened?` and his response?
`i got a gf now.`
and me, being the ever curious fool that i am, dart into the other group of japanese people and finally stumble upon my friend's said gf.
it was one of my students. she's 17. and in my dream i have the same expression as you probably do right now: jaw dropped, shocked expression, slightly pale.
so the first thing i did when i woke up today and got into work, i im'd the whole story to him.
anonymous: haha no, and why wasn't it [insert name of other mutual friend], why'd it have to be me?
me: well, cause we're single
me: lol
anon: HAHAHA
anon: fair enough......fair.........enough........
me: and thank GOODNESS it wasn't me
me: then there'd be something wrong...
anon: rite rite
anon: but me.....
anon: i mean.......thats okay
anon: 17 yr old
anon: [anon's real name]
anon: nothing ODD about that
anon: YEA THANKS MAN
anon: thats it......im going home
me: lol
me: big <3
can't wait to go home...
Posted by Jeff at 10:27 AM | Comments (1)
June 26, 2007
oh yeah
and i was having dinner with chris and annabelle sunday night on my way back from sado, and we ate some pretty hot peppers (why would they do this to us?).
anyways, we got around to discussing the best remedies to it, and we all agreed that milk was the best, but `why?`
just thought i'd share this with all of you.
milk or other dairy products to soothe your mouth because they contain a casein, a protein that breaks the bond capsaicin forms with pain receptors.
this is what i do while at work...
Posted by Jeff at 09:57 AM | Comments (0)
how big of a heel am i?
so last month, may 07, i learned an old friend annabelle was living in japan.
then in asked `how long have you been here?`
`october 05,` she replied.
to answer my own question, a big one.
Posted by Jeff at 09:52 AM | Comments (0)
tired doesn't even begin to describe it
it really really doesn't.
so last friday i headed up to sado island to visit my cousin aeon who's also on the jet program. last year he came down to shiz and the fuj to visit me and i always said i'd repay the favor. so here it is: how to get to sado island!
1. take 1hr 13 min shink to tokyo.
2. take 2 hr 7 min shink to niigata.
3. take 15 min bus ride to ferry terminal.
4. take 2 hr 30 min ferry ride to niigata. <---- i bought the cheapest ticket and hid in the `special class` (one up of first class) lounge hehe.
i left home at 3:10pm, i arrived at 10:00pm.
fun times!
anyways, really really good to see what life is like for my cous, and let alone another side of japan. i think i got the tingles when he said the only real thing to do there was drive along the northern coast for 3 hrs...
oh and i really lost it when he offered that we traverse said adventure on his motorcycle, and me following on a scooter.
first time on a scooter, and a 3 hr coastal ride?
best!
seriously it's easily one of the best moments of my life, to push that little scooter to 60 km/h (~38 mph) with the sea on your left and this gorgeous greenery on your right and pretending i'm not on some pansy scooter, but a nice bike...
regardless it was a great weekend, we went firefly catching, ate curry out of a bus, went to a concert (that was... no comment...) but at the end aeon got up and did a piano solo of `desperado` and THAT was gold! made a restaurant regret the words `all you can eat,` and painfully learned how out of shape i am when we played a game of 1 on 1, and visited the only 5 story pagoda in all of niigata.
big thanks to my cous again for hosting, and hope to be able to do that drive again except on a real bike next time.
see ryan, i am cultured...
even though we walked in and out in under 6 minutes...
still... cultured!
Posted by Jeff at 09:26 AM | Comments (0)
June 20, 2007
as of 9:50AM JST
i have officially taught my last lesson in japan.
Posted by Jeff at 09:52 AM | Comments (0)
June 16, 2007
for mike wu:
so i went to a temple...
...yeah
Posted by Jeff at 05:28 PM | Comments (0)
holy
i just wet myself.
Posted by Jeff at 01:57 PM | Comments (0)
June 15, 2007
and... the day before yesterday
i let my 2nd year business english class watch `independnce day` last week. goto sensei asked them all to write a summary of the sorts and turn it into me, well, the day before yesterday.
one of the students is actually very good at english (had her in my oc1 class last year), and i just loved the summary she wrote for the movie:
Because a meaning of this title was "Independence Day". Why is it this title. I thought so... This movie importance to a beloved person and Human thought. Human stupidity. And I was able to watch splendid. Before the president fights against a spaceship. That he said to pilots was very splendid. Racial discrimination stop. Always I want the peace world to become it. The alien was grotesque...
hehe that last line is seriously the best.
Posted by Jeff at 12:41 PM | Comments (0)
yesterday...
lately i haven't been able to eat breakfast - mostly cause i oversleep a bit (actually a lot) and find myself running out the door to get to class.
so lunch came around yesterday, and lately, i've been bringing it to my desk and chatting with tomono sensei and tajima sensei (who sits to my immediateleft and two sports over on my left respectively).
me: YAY FOOD!
tomono sensei: what?
me: yay... food?
tajima sensei: what do you mean?
me: it just means i'm simple :D
tj: i don't understand... please explain
me: well ok, you know how some people are really happy if you buy them jewelery, cars, expensive items?
tj: yes.
me: well i just (yes this is the actually translation of the word, though a scosh literal... just a scosh) achieve the most supreme happiness in the universe when i get food. thus simple to make happy.
tj: oh i get it...
tomono: yeah, means he's cheap.
...
5 letter word... rhymes with stitch...
(jk i really do like tomono sensei)
Posted by Jeff at 12:35 PM | Comments (0)
at lunch 15 minutes ago...
in japanese:
saito sensei: omg, i need to stop drinking.
goto sensei: i know, it's so bad, need to stop.
me: yes that's a good idea! (yes i'm limited to really lame corny catchphrases in jp)
g: but can't stop...
s: agreed.
me: ???
g: if i did, i'd die.
me: /thinkingaboutthat
me: wait a minute... isn't it the other way around? if you stopped, you'd live?
g: but the stress.
...
that... can't be right...
Posted by Jeff at 12:30 PM | Comments (0)
June 12, 2007
by request!
so, as requested by my brother, here's an update.
which for the record i apologize for due to nothing really happening in my life besides work and getting ready to head back.
seriously, it's so slow here, paint dries faster.
so on sunday ryan, me, nakamura sensei, and nakamura sensei's friend (who didn't show) headed back to ushihama (remember my attempt at a 21km half marathon?) but this time it's to do a simple 4 man relay, 5km each.
now me, being my usual stuff, had managed to get myself out of shape... again.. (i swear it gets harder each time... really), find myself really psyched up. so psyched up that as we were watching the previous race finish up, i just had to say this:
me: ok this is going to sound really gay, but you know what's hot?
ryan: what?
me: guys with shaped calves.
ryan: yeah... that is...
[insert pause for comedic timing]
ryan: ...pretty gay.
...
i can hear my brother now...
Posted by Jeff at 06:57 PM | Comments (1)
June 09, 2007
so...
it's june.
as i was getting off work today, i saw a bunch of my kids in kyudo waiting around together in the parking lot. they all turned around and started waving at me and yelling 'JEFFU BYE BYE!!!' ...
and me without my camera...
...i'm seriously gonna miss all of this...
Posted by Jeff at 12:25 AM | Comments (0)