I'm currently at my Mum's house, which is here. Later on I'm going to meet my friend Jen from uni at Euston Station.
Google Maps is quite brilliantly spooky - you can find your old place and look up the route you took to walk to school. There are also some sites which list interesting locations, although unfortunately the one of stonehenge isn't hi-detail enough yet.
You can also look up places in Japan, like my flat in Nagaoka, but again the satellite stuff isn't there yet. Obviously the coverage of America is a bit more thorough - New York looks pretty amazing up close.
And of course don't forget our nearest werewolf-obsessed tide-fiddling neighbour...
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Now we'll see who's boss.
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I came out with my first ever Japanese pun the other day. We were doing a shopping game, and I of course had the meat shop (ok maybe my second pun - niku is meat in Japanese, so I always get the meat shop. It was funny the first time). We were using cards with pictures the kids had coloured in, and one chicken card was coloured a very particular and vibrant shade of blue. As hen means 'strange' in Japanese, I gave the blue chicken to my eager customer with the comment 'sorry, it's a bit hen.' Yes I can hear you groaning, and no I am not sorry. Very Very Very Very Very Happy (so called because whenver I ask him 'How are you?' always replies with "I'm very very very very very happy!") didn't seem to mind the blue chicken, and took it away to be promptly turned in paper yaki soba. Also in his class is Mowgli, because she looks like a wild bush-child with massive scraggy hair. Anyway, this leads me onto a collection of stupid jokes, puns and double entendres we make in the classroom, which only we get - our students and usually teachers observe our helpless giggling with a rather bemused expression, which of course makes us giggle more.
Particularly dangerous is introducing the fruits in the fruit shop:
Me: "Yoshikawa-sensei, do you have melons?"
Yoshikawa-sensei: "Let me check. (looks down) Oh! Yes I do!"
Me: "Great! How many?"
YS: "I don't know! Let's count!"
Me: OK!
All: "One. Two. Two!"
Me: "Right! So you have two melons!"
YS: "Yes! Two biiiig melons!"
Me: "OK! Yamaga-sensei, what do you have?"
Yamaga-sensei: "I have.... grapefruits!"
and so on.
At Junior High School you get some cracking spelling errors as well - my favourite to date is "I lik milk", which was made all the funnier by the fact that she had written "I like cats a much" just above it. Lower case b's and d's are a bit of a minefield as well - "I like play with my bog". Sometimes they spell everything correctly and it still comes out amusingly - 'My sister doesn't clean her room every day' has a wonderful earnestness about it.