Cool referral link of the day: a weblog for an English school in Japan. (Also designed by kc!, former dot-com co-worker and otherwise known as the DJ at my birthday party.)
I don’t know why I get such a kick out of this. Maybe it’s the secret hope that somewhere in Kojima, little six-year-old kids are talking about me. (Japanese in italics.)
Instructor: Did anyone read Ernie’s WEBLOG today? What did we learn? Ayumi?
Ayumi: Well, today we learned that in San Francisco people have sex wearing funny leather outfits in supermarkets and…
Instructor: Remember Ayumi! In class, we use English! English, please!
Ayumi: TODAY… WE LEARN… IN SAN FRANCISCO… HAVE THERE LEATHER SEX… IN FOOD CENTER!
Instructor: Supermarket. The word for supermarket is supermarket.
Ayumi: Whatever.
Instructor: Okay then. Daisuke, have you been memorizing any phrases from last weeks lesson from LYD?
Daisuke: I have, teacher!(Daisuke the six-year-old Japanese boy coughs quietly, then proceeds to scream “DON’T GO THERE, GIRLFRIEND!!!!” in English while swiveling his neck and giving the instructor “the hand.”)
Instructor: Very good!
On second thought, maybe not.