Today was the city bunkasai and I helped out with English activities--man, little kids are adorable and fun but exhausting. And it was raining and crappy all day. Met some nice people though. I didn't realize people from Singapore all spoke such good English. The woman I met today said she was bad compared to her countrymen, and she had like no accent. She invited me to New Years dinner after meeting me once! She was really easygoing and nice, and has three little kids (wow) and can't work because she and her Japanese husband live with her in-laws and they are very traditional. I encouraged her to rebel. ::sows seeds of dissension::
Kids at school continue to be alternatively obnoxious and silent. There is a *lot* of amusing Engrish. And the Foreign Language Voice (we all have one) for English for a lot of Japanese men happens to sound a lot like Donald Duck. (Speaking of Donald, I assume you've all read about Mickey Mouse
trying to commit suicide.) It was so hilarious when the Principal gave the opening speech I wrote for him to give at the Speech Contest--he used to be an English teacher--in his Donald voice (It actually sounds more like the Impressive Clergyman in
Princess Bride. OMG.) and couldn't pronounce the word "enthusiasm." My God, I was *shaking* in my chair trying to keep from laughing, the poor man.
I saw a heapload of my kids at the bunkasai today, but I only recognized most because they waved to me first. They're really friendly. I recognize a few faces, but 4 schools is a lot of kids, and they look different out of uniform. I saw one girl today that I did recognize, but she looked so grown up out of uniform. She had a newsboy cap and one gold dangly earring of a nested square-circle-triangle I think. I saw one woman selling food with humongous leonine blond hair. I was like WTF the eighties can't really be coming back can they? Because that earring and hat was right out of Jump Street, or something I'd wear in elementary school (only I'd wear two earrings).
Boy is far away in Tokyo for good now so I am lonely like a wombat. And all the chores he usually did as a houseboy are not magically done anymore. I need to enter vid-farr, but work keeps getting in the way. Oh, well, at least I can write (crappy) fic at work still.
I need to study Japanese but I am too lazy. Buuu. I can usually understand regular conversations in person, but that's about it. I got a telemarketer call yesterday from AU/KDDI, and they wanted to combine some bills or something but it was really hard for me to understand him (because of my sucky Japanese) and all the forms seem very complicated and I would have to ask a teacher, and it probably would save me a *little* money, but I'm always one to choose convenience over price. He's going to call back though so now I feel obligated. I got another telemarketer call the day before from a man who spoke extremely slowly and identified himself as "sono denwa wa roboto denwa desu." Hee. At least they're honest about it over here.
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