I Love This Country

I just had my love for this country renewed. See, I work in a mall with lots of trendy shops and boutiques, so of course they play the laters (3 months old) American pop and hip hip. Well, the thin is, no one actually understands the words. It's like that commercial for English school where the family gets in the car, little kids and all, and the radio is playing the song "I Wanna Fuck You in the Ass," by the Outhere Brothers, but the tune is catchy so they start groovin out to it. Ever listened to a song in a nother language, even one you can speal? It's almost impossible most times to make out what they're saying.

So anyway, I'm on my way to have a cigaretee and I hear David Banner's "Play" coming from one of the stores nearby. Well, it's certainly not the radio edit. So here I am in a mall filled with kids and elderly folks, listening to a rather graphic depiction of what he wants these girls to do out on the dance floor. Cracks me up.

Moe, one of my kids, gave me candy today after class. It was banana flavored. I saked what flavor Gakushi's was, but he didn't understand, so I pointed to my mouth and said, "Banana. I hate banana."

On more kids related notes, I got my cover form today for Kids Coordinator training on the 2nd of March. Yes, that's right, it's official, I'm the K.C. for my branch now. Yay for more work and no greater pay.

In my group of little angels Kinder class Naomi, my favorite, and Ruka, my other favorite, started dancing together while we were doing the "I can dance" portion of the lesson. They were holding hands and jumping around in circles, and it was about the cutest thing I have ever seen in my entire life. Naomi wore a Powerpuff Girls visor to class today, that sealed her supercoolness forever. Naomi reminds me a lot of Paige F. actually, who I suppose only one person who doesn't read this would know. Anyway, I looked up while they were dancing, I had to tear myself away from dancing myself as I do love the dancing, and I saw that one of the moms (kids lessons are a spectator sport here) taking a picture of them dancing. So cute. Immortalized in what must have been a poorly taken, blurry photograph. With me halfway in the air looking retarded. But immortal.

Hiroko, my branch's only level 3, chose to describe energy tranferrence when asked to describe a process. I was going to suggest plant life cycles, but, sure why not? Nothing like a little physics to get you thinking. She studied math at Oxfor for 5 years, which is why not only is her English good enough to be level 3, but as well highlights the lack of need for grammatical accuracy which keeps her in level 3. It also hints at why she chose to describe how potential energy becomes kinetic and heat energy.