30 06 2004

Wed, 30 Jun 2004

Playboy

Just a quick entry, because I'd like to get some Japanese study done before work, too.

On Saturday I taught a "summer party". During the June-July period my school holds a series of these parties for students that are taught by native Japanese, so that at least once or twice during the year, the students can get a chance to interact with native English speakers. Each party is about an hour long and the primary emphasis is on having fun - producing stuff they already know rather than learning new material. So we play a lot of games and run around, dance, etc.

By the end of the day I had become acquainted with a previously undiscovered level of tiredness. But it was a fun day, and I'm looking forward to teaching another one in a few weeks.

Most of the students I taught are in shougakkou - primary school, though one of the classes I taught was full of junior high school students. The shougakkou students range from about 6 years old to about 12.

In one of the shougakkou classes, there was a girl who was about 10 years old, wearing a playboy t-shirt. I'd read about things like this on the internet before, but I was still suprised to see it up close. I doubt the parents had a real idea of what the t-shirt meant.

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