Candy and learning new japanese words

I introduced skittles to my students in the dance club. They thought they were like smarties, but were pleasantly surprised to find out they were tasty candies! I used it as an opportunity to teach them what each flavour each colour was.

Some birds flew over our head and we heard a big splat. The girls shrieked and yelled about the poo. This started a conversation about poo. At the end I learned new words to describe poo: unko and unchi, daiben and fun.

Big Trouble in Little Osaka

got told off by a japanese gas station attendant today when I cut through the station on my bike. He waved me down with a "konnichiwa! konnichiwa!" and I knew I had done something wrong. He assumed I understood Japanese by the way I looked, went into a rant, and wildly gesticulated. I didn't understand what he was saying but by his tone and gestures I figured he was saying it was dangerous to bike through a gas station because I might get hit by a car.

Being robbed by my students

I had a group of my genki students stop and surround me on my bike as I was leaving, and they begged me for food and money because they were hungry. wtf?? The last thing I expected to find in Japan is starving schoolchildren.

Honestly they were just using it as a chance to chat with me. Its weird having that many faces staring at me waiting for me to say something funny. I gave one girl a 5-yen coin and laughed in her face saying "try buying something with that", but she was still joyous to get anything from me. I had to promise them I'd bring chocolate tommorrow to get them off my back. Damn these kids are gonna bully me out of my lunch money if I'm not too careful!