For the past few days its been spring break at school, and there is really nothing to do. This isn’t really that unusual for me, since some days I have no classes anyway. Today, however, seemed to be the first day at work that Nohmi sensei didn’t have marking or something else to do, so she was clearly as bored as me. This led to her making more small talk with me than usual, some of which was pretty funny:
N: “I did not send a letter to my friend in Canada for New Years, so can you help me send a letter for the new school year?”
D: “It isn’t a new school year in Canada though”
N: “Ah, well… can you just write a letter about something?”
D: “About what?”
N: “I don’t know, I’m not good at writing in English”
D: “Ok…” (I wrote a letter pretending to be Nohmi, to someone I know nothing about, telling them about how I am happy to be staying at Asago JHS and looking forward to visiting Canada again)
N: (After searching through her desk drawers and finding a candy)”Would you like a candy?”
D: “No thanks”
N: “Why not?”
D: “Um, every time someone gives me a candy in Japan it’s gross”
N: “This candy is not gross, it’s delicious. It’s shishi remon (c.c. lemon, which is a drink like minute maid lemonade), have you tried shishi remon?”
D: “Yeah, but I think it’s too sweet”
N: “I think the cold wine (icewine) from Canada is too sweet, and too expensive”
