Today my current school held its fire drill. This isn’t the first fire drill I’ve participated in, but it still got to me how everything played out. To make it easier, I shall make bullet points comparing a typical American school fire drill and a Japanese school fire drill, both (obviously) from my [...]

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Today my sole class consisted of five disabled kids. I honestly didn’t see what was so disabled about them (except that one was incredibly shy), but sure, whatever.
Actually come to think of it, I know what’s disabled about them–it’s their perception of age. One student said I looked like a 19-year-old college student (understandable), but [...]

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Yesterday during cleaning time some kid comes up to me and we start talking to each other. Shortly into the conversation he starts saying “Konnichiwa,” and pausing like he was expecting me to repeat. So depsite that we had already been talking in both Japanese and English, I figured that hey, if he really wants [...]

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