During lunch with the 1st graders at one of the elementaries we were chatting about the usual fare for a while ("What animal do you like?" "How old are you?"), until finally one asks the inevitable:
"[Do you have a girlfriend?]"
I inform them that no, I in fact, do not, and am immediately paired off with one of the assistant teachers. Awkward eye contact and apologies from/to the paired parties ensue while the children giggle; despite the homeroom teacher's reassurances that, fact that I was leaving Japan aside, I didn't need the help of the first graders to find a girlfriend, the students kept bringing it up.
"Well if Matt likes curry rice, ~sensei can make it..."
Their innocence really is touching.
Wednesday, July 22, 2009
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