懐かしいな〜
Today when the kids left school I could hear them screaming さむい！ (it's cold!) in the halls, and indeed it was. My three quarter sleeve sweater did not cut it. Then this evening I went to Mamiko's house and we had oden with big hunks of daikon (Japanese radish) and on the bike ride home from Mamiko's I could smell gas from space heaters spilling out into the dark streets. It's winter in Japan.
Today was cold, thus only one highlight:
1. Vocabulary diversification. Today one of my teachers had a few extra minutes at the end of class and decided to have me say a list of colors while the kids repeated after me. I was really not in the mood for rote memorization stuff. So as "revenge" (adopted into Japanese as a much cuter word) I contributed a new color to their vocabulary: a whole class of Japanese fifth graders saying, "cerulean".
Honorable mention: Mamiko. It always brightens my day to go to her house and chat. Also she makes a mean café au lait.
2 comments:
what the god damn hell is cerulean?
Jonathan, are you of Bristol? Cerulean is a pretty way to say 'blue'.
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