Naruto, garage bands and edible students (that wasn’t in the contract)
It seems that my duties as an AET extend further each day. Granted, the actual duties aren’t that heavy to begin with, so I’m happy for anything extra that gets thrown my way – whether it be doing another teacher’s photocopying, or drawing character pages for the art club.
Last week I was approached by one of the English teachers with a small piece of paper. He asked for my help as he showed it to me. The paper bore only two scrawled words, ‘Rad Wimps’. The confusion must’ve been written all over my face, so he explained that a ninensei boy had asked for my help. He was contemplating a name for his band and wanted to know if ‘Rad Wimps’ was appropriate. I asked if he knew what it meant, and the teacher seemed to have the definition downpat, so I gave it the thumbs up. Keep your eyes open for a delinquent garage band called ‘Rad Wimps’ in Kyoto’s underground scene.
At another point, the school nurse held out to me a piece of paper bearing various doodles of anime characters, predominantly of Naruto. She pointed to a particularly prominent character and asked ‘Do you know him?’. Before I could stop myself, the words ‘Sure, it’s Gaara’ were out of my mouth, much to nurse-san’s amusement. I’m really not much of a Naruto fan myself, but since so many of my kids watch the show, I feel the need to know at least enough to get by in conversations. Nurse-san was greatly encouraged and gave me the name and class of the student that did the drawings, urging me to talk to her whenever I could. ‘She always draws him [Gaara], so please talk to her about him every time. She will be very happy’. Does this mean I can sit in the library watching anime during school hours and write it off as ‘preparation for student interaction’?
Yesterday, while doing my usual rounds of ‘Hi! How are you?’ One boy answered ‘Nnn… I’m sleepy’.
‘Oh really? I’m hungry. I want to eat some chocolate’
‘Oh,’ he pondered, then grabbed his friend and offered him in my direction. ‘Here. It’s chocolate boy’.
Of course, the friend realized what was happening and quickly switched from ‘Eh? Are are?’ to ‘No no no noononononno!’. The poor kid honestly looked like he thought I was going to eat him. Maybe I shouldn’t have made a comment about how delicious he looked while licking my lips.
Also, in other news, that first year boy is still after one of my pink hairs.
Last week I was approached by one of the English teachers with a small piece of paper. He asked for my help as he showed it to me. The paper bore only two scrawled words, ‘Rad Wimps’. The confusion must’ve been written all over my face, so he explained that a ninensei boy had asked for my help. He was contemplating a name for his band and wanted to know if ‘Rad Wimps’ was appropriate. I asked if he knew what it meant, and the teacher seemed to have the definition downpat, so I gave it the thumbs up. Keep your eyes open for a delinquent garage band called ‘Rad Wimps’ in Kyoto’s underground scene.
At another point, the school nurse held out to me a piece of paper bearing various doodles of anime characters, predominantly of Naruto. She pointed to a particularly prominent character and asked ‘Do you know him?’. Before I could stop myself, the words ‘Sure, it’s Gaara’ were out of my mouth, much to nurse-san’s amusement. I’m really not much of a Naruto fan myself, but since so many of my kids watch the show, I feel the need to know at least enough to get by in conversations. Nurse-san was greatly encouraged and gave me the name and class of the student that did the drawings, urging me to talk to her whenever I could. ‘She always draws him [Gaara], so please talk to her about him every time. She will be very happy’. Does this mean I can sit in the library watching anime during school hours and write it off as ‘preparation for student interaction’?
Yesterday, while doing my usual rounds of ‘Hi! How are you?’ One boy answered ‘Nnn… I’m sleepy’.
‘Oh really? I’m hungry. I want to eat some chocolate’
‘Oh,’ he pondered, then grabbed his friend and offered him in my direction. ‘Here. It’s chocolate boy’.
Of course, the friend realized what was happening and quickly switched from ‘Eh? Are are?’ to ‘No no no noononononno!’. The poor kid honestly looked like he thought I was going to eat him. Maybe I shouldn’t have made a comment about how delicious he looked while licking my lips.
Also, in other news, that first year boy is still after one of my pink hairs.
Hey Amy! It's Jess [as in jess and tina, haha]. Seriously, your adventures made me crack up right now, and I'm in a study period with 60 other people and it's silent. It's like a really good book or something. Hope everything's alright there! Did you have a nice christmas?
x
Posted by Jess | 12:34 PM
^_^ delightful story as always A-chan, I can always rely on your stories to brighten up a day.
Posted by Sly of the magical brow land | 5:50 PM
Unfortunately while "Rad Wimps" is a great name, it's already been taken. There's a 4 piece (I have an article about them in H magazine- which I bought for it's special on Hanadan2) already calld "Radwimps" so it's gone.
Posted by Zedstar | 7:09 PM