Strikes Again

[akujunkan]

School is busy gearing up for the field day tomorrow. Not having been given anything to do, and having had my requests to be given something to do summarily turned down, I was one of the last teachers to amble out onto the field for the big Putting Stones Into Buckets extravaganza this afternoon. Right before I left, a photocopy of a fax appeared on my desk.

Within the past 2.5 hours, six parents had received phonecalls with a sobbing child's voice in the background by people having claimed to have kidnapped their children. By the time I'd returned from a fruitful 45 minutes of putting stones into buckets, the number of calls had increased by six. There are some sick, sick fucks out there.

That said, the 45 minutes on the field were pretty damn fun. Not having been given anything to do, I made a nuisance of myself by wandering around, offering bored kids a distraction from rock collection. They were only too happy to mob me, and I had a lot of good conversations with my students. Cutest moment: I was mobbed by a group of about five 3nensei girls.

"One, two three, ジル laugh!" the leader cried, and the kids responded with a very passable impression of my laugh. It's obvious they'd been practicing for some time. (On a side note, Japanese really do laugh differently from Westerners. They use a different range, and produce the laugh in a different part of the throat. No kidding.)

They also enjoyed regaling me with impressions of me saying 'China,' Korea,' and 'water' - all three of which I pronounce very differently from the overly enunciated versions they hear on their language CDs. So all in all, a good afternoon.

That will be all.

Comments

[firesign10.livejournal.com]

That's terrible! Speaking as a parent, I know what that kind of call would do to me, and I cannot fathom someone doing that for a prank or whatever (since at least, thank god, it's been all noise and no action - and I hope it stays that way!!!) And just to have that happening around you is pretty scary! I hope they locate the perpetrator(s) at some point here.

So, is that what Field Day is there? They collect rocks? Hmm, no wonder they don't need bleachers LOL (as recently learned from spacealien_vamp). Furuba9 has field day next week at her elementary school and it's a full day of running and playing games in mud and so on. She even brought a note home that suggests the kids bring a change of clothes and shoes!