Saturday Ed and I went up to Nagoya to fill out more paper work for his stolen camera. It was a wonderful sunny day and little bands were playing in a little area, traffic was busy, and political dudes were making announcements from their car loudspeakers. Unlike in the states, you can drive down the street making very loud announcements about whatever, and its not noise pollution and no one calls the cops.
The band
HERE is a video of that band playing in the park. I took a video mainly of the ridiculous guitar player. Look at that hair. The way he moves and plays, he thinks he is tough stuff!
After listening to his ridiculous solos, we headed over to the brand new ROBOT MUSEUM! Here you can see robots through the ages and then buy robot-related things, such as Roombas, Robo-sapiens, robotic furry sea lions (that appearently are only for cheering up old people and people in hospitals according to the pictures...), robot turtles, robot watches, and high end robot-themed jewelry. Even a robot shaped toilet paper dispenser. I bought a pin.
When you first enter the museum, you can get your outline drawn by a robot! So we did!
HERE is the video of the robot actually drawing us. In the background you can hear a robot "playing" classical music. creepy.
Hallway of old robot book and movie covers.
Now this was interesting. It was a creepy looking wooden doll and book. It was a tea-serving robot and its plans. As it turns out, I believe it was made in 1658. Now THAT'S creepy.
Other neat things
Robots clean up traffic accidents in the future!
Cute robot lamps in the shop. They also appear on the shop bags.
No one can stop our new robot overlords!!
(so what if we were having a little too much fun!)
Sunday was a lazy day, and met up with some people to go to a Thai restaurant. I don't like Thai food, but I'm willing to give it another (3rd) chance... it failed... again. Anyways, two of the fellows who work there names are "god" and "porn" (the Thai spelling, I dont know). I just found that highly amusing.
This week I am back at my junior high. I ony have to give my intro presentation 4 more times an I'm done forever!!! (honest to god, that will make it 46 TOTAL times I have done it. If I have to do it ever again, I'm going to lose it...). In my last class today, a kid trying to be tough in the corner kept saying the F word. I ignored him as I didn't want give him any anger to work with. After about the 15th time however during our number review I said, "That's not a number, please stop saying that!" and kept on rolling. Later on in my presentation, I give out stickers to only children (they don't know it until that moment). Junior high kids think me excitedly giving out stickers is hilarious, and I think some are actually embarassed to get them. This interrupter in the corner happened to be an only child, and when I ran at him yelling "WOO! NO BROTHERS! NO SISTERS! ALRIGHT! YAY!" he was very surprised and the class lost it. Some had their heads down laughing hysterically, one kid actually fell out of his chair from laughing so hard. The kid didn't make a scene the rest of class. It was great.
I also had a special ed. class today, only 3 kids. Nothing as severe as the elementary school, I think they are just a little slower. We had a good time jumping around and drawing Halloween pumpkin faces and coloring Halloween pictures. It's kinda interesting, the slowest shy girl, has really great artistic skills. I really enjoyed it (and the smaller class), I hope I can work with them more.
I will leave you with some Engrish* from my kids today:
"I like hand!!!"
"I like TVgerm"
"I want to work for an airforce. I want to be an airforce to help many people. I want to fly in the sky. So in the future, I want to fry around the world. I like to fry."
*"Engrish can be simply defined as the humorous English mistakes that appear in Japanese advertising and product design. Engrish can be found all over the world, but the vast majority of the really funny and creative Engrish is from Japan." from Engrish.com.
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