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I know the burning question in everyone`s mind, is how is the schooling in Japan? Well aside from the fact that I spend my entire life in a school now, it isn`t half bad. Although my only serious class is math, I can tell that the japanese aren`t super geniuses, like we always made them out to be. I help teach english class, and that is a good bit of fun. My major problem in schol, is controlling the girls hanging out the windows, screaming my name... no I`m not making it up. Perhaps it`s the blue eyes, and the pearly white teeth that would make a dentist proud. Both of these things are hot commodities in Japan. Like I said in one of my past entries, my school is like a small liberal arts campus, but the catch is teachers change classes, not students. Classes are fifty minutes long, but there is ten minutes break time in between. Lunch is much better in Japan too. Before every class, they do this thing called mokso, which is basically meditating. It helps the students get in the mindset for class I guess. There is also is a bow to the teacher at the beginning and end of every class. The most annoying thing about the school is what kids say to the teachers when they see them in the hallways or at lunch. It is a butchered form of konnichiwa (hello) that sounds like chaaaaaaaaaaaps. It is the most annoying sound ever when emitted from the mouth of a baseball player. they don`t say it once, they say it at least fifty times. And the soccer field is next to the baseball field, and it seems like the baseball players never stop saying this incredibly annoying phrase. Let me change that, it`s only annoying when baseball players say it, thus adding to my list of reasons to not accept baseball as a sport. But I digress, in the words of the immortal Doc Lechnar. School is pretty fun for the most part, I have a few friends, but most kids are just intimidated by my coolness, no joke. For once in my life, I am considered tall as well. At speeches where everyone is standing up, I can see the tops of their heads, it`s great.
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