It's Thursday, November 7th, 1991 here in Ohtawara-shi, Tochigi-ken, Japan.
It's friggin' cold outside.
It's my last day at Ohtawara Chu Gakko (Ohtawara Junior High School) where I team-teach English hired through the JET (Japan Exchange & Teaching) Programme. It's also my last day as a 26-year-old.
Mrs. Bannai (Bannai-sensei) an English teacher at this school - and one of the cutest chicks I have ever seen - seriously... she must have been the mold for ever single female cutey-pie Japanese manga/anime (comic book/cartoon) character out there - anyhow... she's quite concerned about my eyesight and the fact I am constantly rubbing my eyes.
She and the school nurse think I should go to an eye doctor and get my eyes checked... but I tell them I am afraid to do so because of the language barrier. I would really like someone to go with me.
Maybe I just don't understand how things really are in Japan, but when I says something like this to any MAN here, they usually drop whatever they are doing and drive me someplace to resolve my problem/concern or issue.
This does not happen here. Of course, this is the first time I have ever confided to a woman here about any physical problem... so I don't really have a large sample base to work with regarding stereotypes.
But, no one offers to take me to an eye doctor, no matter how much I hint. And I'm quite good at doing that. No one blinks - except in that cute female Japanese way. Oh well.
During my school lunch with the kids, the boys talk pure sex with me. A lot of sex. In broken English and broken Japanese... At least it's in English mostly, so I do my best to provide them with answers about naughty English words and answer as much as I can about my own conquests, or recent lack thereof.
It is scary when you consider that these are 13-year-old boys, and I am twice their age (for now).
I go home... go out and rent a couple more movies, watch and relax and then go to bed at 12:30AM.
I have not plugged the phone back in for a few days now.
Somewhere my eyes hurt,
Andrew Joseph
Today's blog is by Led Zepellin. Yeah, I've used the title before... but it's Led Zep, man!
It's friggin' cold outside.
It's my last day at Ohtawara Chu Gakko (Ohtawara Junior High School) where I team-teach English hired through the JET (Japan Exchange & Teaching) Programme. It's also my last day as a 26-year-old.
Mrs. Bannai (Bannai-sensei) an English teacher at this school - and one of the cutest chicks I have ever seen - seriously... she must have been the mold for ever single female cutey-pie Japanese manga/anime (comic book/cartoon) character out there - anyhow... she's quite concerned about my eyesight and the fact I am constantly rubbing my eyes.
She and the school nurse think I should go to an eye doctor and get my eyes checked... but I tell them I am afraid to do so because of the language barrier. I would really like someone to go with me.
Maybe I just don't understand how things really are in Japan, but when I says something like this to any MAN here, they usually drop whatever they are doing and drive me someplace to resolve my problem/concern or issue.
This does not happen here. Of course, this is the first time I have ever confided to a woman here about any physical problem... so I don't really have a large sample base to work with regarding stereotypes.
But, no one offers to take me to an eye doctor, no matter how much I hint. And I'm quite good at doing that. No one blinks - except in that cute female Japanese way. Oh well.
During my school lunch with the kids, the boys talk pure sex with me. A lot of sex. In broken English and broken Japanese... At least it's in English mostly, so I do my best to provide them with answers about naughty English words and answer as much as I can about my own conquests, or recent lack thereof.
It is scary when you consider that these are 13-year-old boys, and I am twice their age (for now).
I go home... go out and rent a couple more movies, watch and relax and then go to bed at 12:30AM.
I have not plugged the phone back in for a few days now.
Somewhere my eyes hurt,
Andrew Joseph
Today's blog is by Led Zepellin. Yeah, I've used the title before... but it's Led Zep, man!
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