Day 70 - Wednesday, May 28, 2008
Day 70
Went to my main school today and after lunch, I saw a bunch of kids and their teachers changing off into some shorts and t shirt and dem tings... I was wondering what was going on??? Then I realized that they were about to clean the school 's pool. Now, I was told by the kochosensei (principal) that almost every single elementary school in Japan, has a swimming pool. They don't hire any body but they themselves along with the kids clean the pool.
Of course because I had nothing to do I had to be there :) WORSE the principal!!! The principal asked me to try out the pool broom thing so I said ok let's see how this goes.. .. Hey I love this job :) Later today the principal showed me some baby ducks that they bought to put on the rice field... The baby ducks will eat the insects that try to mess up the rice plant... they also fenced around the ducks and put electricity on the fence in case some fox or bird try to eat the ducks... I hear that a couple of the teachers well, accidentally get shocked by the fence, not remembering that the current is there... The principal then showed me a dead baby snake while we were walking back to the car parking lot... DEAD SNAKE???? I don't like the idea of snakes being around me, whether poisonous or not. And Yes people, I am well aware that I need a hair cut but nooooo nooo, I will wait a bit, trimming too expensive...
I found out that Jamaica actually has a meaning in Japanese...
JAMA - Means obstacle
IKA - Means cuttlefish
To X and Stewart, the prefecture that my friend is in that is having the racial problem is a place name AICHI - and the capital is Nagoya ... Another friend email me while I was writing this blog, and she said she is facing some ridiculous racism as well. She said some kids stoned her the other day and a kid and their parent, pointed at her and laughed at her... I was in shock when I read her email... she is in a prefecture called CHIBA... This is the prefecture that we went to for training. The girl went as far as to tell me that some Japanese would spit and cough whenever she walk by... It's not the first I hearing this from someone either... My Jamaican friend in Hiroshima said the same thing happen to her too with the spit and cough business... I had nooo clue that this type of thing happened in Japan. Sigh!!!
Article on Racism in Japan: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/4671687.stm
Went to my main school today and after lunch, I saw a bunch of kids and their teachers changing off into some shorts and t shirt and dem tings... I was wondering what was going on??? Then I realized that they were about to clean the school 's pool. Now, I was told by the kochosensei (principal) that almost every single elementary school in Japan, has a swimming pool. They don't hire any body but they themselves along with the kids clean the pool.
Of course because I had nothing to do I had to be there :) WORSE the principal!!! The principal asked me to try out the pool broom thing so I said ok let's see how this goes.. .. Hey I love this job :) Later today the principal showed me some baby ducks that they bought to put on the rice field... The baby ducks will eat the insects that try to mess up the rice plant... they also fenced around the ducks and put electricity on the fence in case some fox or bird try to eat the ducks... I hear that a couple of the teachers well, accidentally get shocked by the fence, not remembering that the current is there... The principal then showed me a dead baby snake while we were walking back to the car parking lot... DEAD SNAKE???? I don't like the idea of snakes being around me, whether poisonous or not. And Yes people, I am well aware that I need a hair cut but nooooo nooo, I will wait a bit, trimming too expensive...
I found out that Jamaica actually has a meaning in Japanese...
JAMA - Means obstacle
IKA - Means cuttlefish
To X and Stewart, the prefecture that my friend is in that is having the racial problem is a place name AICHI - and the capital is Nagoya ... Another friend email me while I was writing this blog, and she said she is facing some ridiculous racism as well. She said some kids stoned her the other day and a kid and their parent, pointed at her and laughed at her... I was in shock when I read her email... she is in a prefecture called CHIBA... This is the prefecture that we went to for training. The girl went as far as to tell me that some Japanese would spit and cough whenever she walk by... It's not the first I hearing this from someone either... My Jamaican friend in Hiroshima said the same thing happen to her too with the spit and cough business... I had nooo clue that this type of thing happened in Japan. Sigh!!!
Article on Racism in Japan: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/4671687.stm
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