Crazy Sensei and Feeling Young Again

The other day my host mom took me out for an icecream parfait. Delicious. As with all parfaits in Japan there is too little icecream and too much corn flakes. The Japanese for some reason see ice cream and corn flakes going hand in hand.

Breakfast cereal aside, it was delicious. Fruit, cookies, icecream, cornflakes, and jello in layers. But little did I know the parfait was just the bait to get me to go out doing errands all day! Oh well, fair is fair.

So while I was out shopping with my homestay mother we ran into a friend of hers. Both women are grandparents and other woman had her granddaughter with her. Despite the fact my homestay mother told her friend I speak Japanese, she ignored me. So I merely stood their in my pink coat staring at the four year old in her pink coat. We just looked at eachother in mutual impatience while the women talked about us as if we weren't there. Both of us wanted to go home and sit down. Both of us had been lured out to do errands with ice cream. I have never felt more like a 4 year old since I was in fact a 4 year old.

Well, that was an enjoyable Sunday nonetheless. During the week I have only class and, eek, my J-Bridge class to look forward. J-Bridge is a course taught in simplified Japanese on a topic. Our topic is Globalization. I was excited for this class at first. But oh, were we all in for a surprise.

In walked Hayamizu-sensei. He seemed nervous, his movements were jerky as though he had forgotten how to move his body. He seemed nice. Then D.J. introduced him self, and the teacher started air disc-jockeying... and called himself "Nasty Yasty". Then I introduced myself and he called me a diva, due to my wearing a World Wildlife Federation t-shirt aka WWF. His impromptu dancing and pantomiming took some getting used to.

But then there are the pants. Oh gosh, the pants. They start out normal, but he pulls them up so high! So high that we can see outlines of things. Things that we do not want to see. And then he dances some more. Its too much. We can't help but laugh!

Poor sensei. He is a nice guy when all is said and done.

On one last note, you may be interested to know I caught strep throat of all things at the end of January, making that a total of three illnesses in January. Here's hoping that is all I will get!


じゃあ また!