We recently had our school's culture festival (koyo-sai). It wasn't a huge event, but all the non-sports clubs did little projects and / or displays that you could look at after school for a week. The English Club paired up with the Broadcasting club and... interviewed members of the sports teams? And me, briefly? I only saw a little bit of the final product, so I'm not entirely sure how it turned out.
Look! I'm on a photo collage...
and cringe-ing-ly labeled as "Holly cute." It's flattering at first, but it eventually feels a little weird how much Japanese teenage girls yell about everything being cute (in English and Japanese). Let's try new adjectives!
A couple of club members had, two weeks prior, run into an English Club meeting and asked to take my photo (close up, in my grill). I didn't know what it was for, but apparently to make a project with me half-photo, half-painted school girl. It was not the most flattering picture to have blown up of me (considering I was a little startled and end-of-the-day sweaty), but I still think I got off better than the teacher pictured next to me, huh?
It was also a good reminder that Japanese young people are somehow almost all artistic. Manga culture? These are from the ... fashion club and ... tea ceremony club? I'm not sure what the first one means at all, but I liked the looks of it.
On Saturday of the recent three-day weekend, I made a trip into Tokyo. I didn't get as much Christmas shopping done a I had hoped, but I picked up some nice Christmas cards and did a little site-seeing-- I went to the top of the city government offices for the first time to check out the view (and, unlike Tokyo Tower, it's free!).
Now I have three days of no classes, because Wednesday - Friday is final exams. So I guess, with the exception of grading a few exams, I should have plenty of sitting around time... (it's not true, I never seem to find more than 10 minutes of sitting around time at school...)
3 comments:
If not for the weird half-photo deal, that looks like really a pretty good portrait of you. The one where they turn a woman who looks like a Japanese schoolmarm into a Barbie is befuddling, however.
The more disturbing part is that was not a schoolmarm, but a... school... mister?
SO WEIRD. (Was he cool with that?)
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