Got to school a bit early and then went on a bit of a photo mission around Akashi Shimizu.
It was a fairly quiet day at school. One good thing happened in class - one of the girls came across the phrase "this sucks", and asked me about it. I explained that it was colloquial, and then tried to exaplin about the verb "to suck". I drew a picture of a dummy, a lollipop and a straw, and used them examples one by one - "You can SUCK a dummy", "You can SUCK a lollipop", "You can SUCK a straw". She got it, and the other students actually understood as well. Then the boy next to her said "chin chin" (which is a slangy Japanese word for penis). So I feigned ignorance, and said "Yes, he can suck a chin chin". The class absolutely fell apart laughing, and I was quite happy to make this kid the butt of jokes for a change, as he normally picks on several of the other quieter students. And I'm pretty sure that most of them will remember "to suck".
At supermarket on my way home, there were two very cute little kids (probably about 4 and 6 years old) running around saying hello to everyone. Like EVERYONE - I could hear them running up and down every aisle, yelling "Konnichiwa" at the tops of their voices. I was like "Oooh, they are coming up my aisle, and so I got a big smile ready and turned around to see them round the corner, their jaws drop, and them change from a crazy run to eyes down politely walking past me until they were two steps past my trolley. Then they resumed their game, and said hello to every single other person in the store. It was pretty funny, but I still wanted my hello.
Food Highlight of the Day: Made some delicious steaks for dinner.
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