I'm finally in Japan. Yay! Tokyo is fly. It's like New York City except I can't read the neon billboards and watermelons cost $35. There are 1000 future English teachers here, 99% of whom are huge Animae/Dungeons and Dragons/Magic the Gathering nerds. Of course, that's great for me, because I've been meaning to level up my Elder Druid for quite some time now.
What I know as of now about my coming year is that I will be working at a high school in the city of Kanazawa, population 500,000, which is small for Japanese cities, in the Ishikawa-ken prefecture. I'll be living alone in walking distance to my school. I am an Assistant Language Teacher (ALT), so I'll be teach-teaching with a Japanese speaker, A.K.A. I won't be completely useless.
Upon my arival on Wednesday, I will be participating in the Japanes gift-giving tradition in called O-miyage where you give a gift when you meet someone, and they give you a gift back of equal or greater value. I have devised a plot to give gifts to as many people as possible, they give me better gifts. Pyramid scheme anyone?
Finally, you should download Skype so we can talk for free online.
Tuesday, July 31, 2007
Tuesday, April 24, 2007
Turtle Power
"Sayonara Turtles!" Shredder's famous last words before the Ninja Turtles thwart his diabolical scheme--every episode. Silly spikey Japanese ninja man, evil never wins! Not only does this catch phrase mark a special time in my life of idolizing pizza-loving ninja punks, it was also my first lesson in Japanese. Sah-Yoh-Nah-Rah. Goodbye. 15 years later I now know two words in Japanese. Hello and goodbye. Not sure where I learned hello, but until I remember I will credit the Ninja Turtles as I do with most things worth while in my life.
I'm teaching English in Japan next year to adorable little middle school Japanese kids who I am totally hoping dress up like ninjas, since that's how I imagine all Japanese people. Concurrently, over the summer I will be developing year-long English lesson plan based off of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles series.
Lesson 1: Pizza toppings.
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