Ahoy-hoy

This is kind of bad, but I’m sitting at the principals desk at one of my junior highs, just mucking around because I only have one class today and that isn’t until after lunch.
All the kids are getting ready for their bunkasai (Culture Festival), so its pretty relaxed here. I swear the vice principal is playing computer games on his lap top and the hot teacher here is just mucking around.
You may have caught the reference to a hot Japanese person. Ok, I admit it, some of the guys here aren’t that bad. At first I wasn’t fussed, but the other day I just kind of clicked, and suddenly, half the guys I see are pretty good looking. Sad, but true.
I guess it comes from being surrounded by them all the time. A few days ago there was a German couple on the same bus as me and I couldn’t help staring at them because they looked so . . . foreign. That kind of explains why I get stared at all the time. One time when I was in the supermarket, I actually got followed around by this old guy who wanted to know exactly what I was buying. It was kind of creepy, but we did get warned. I’ve also been stopped in the street by people wanting to know if I’m American (bad), and when they find out I’m a kiwi they get really excited.

Anyway, on to other stuff.
Yesterday, I bought a new camera. The stuff over here is a lot more advanced than in New Zealand (you guys should see my cell phone – it’s amazing). It’s a great little camera and was pretty cheap considering (I won’t tell you how much). The scary thing is that it is all in Japanese and THAT DOESN’T BOTHER ME! What is up with that?? When I first picked it up and played around with it, I didn’t even notice the lack of English – sick. Reading the katakana (like the Arabian alphabet, sort of) was automatic and made sense.
Here’s an example of what katakana reads like:
supootsu sentaa - sports centre.
basu kaado - bus card
pasukon - personal computer

Makes perfect sense, right?
I’ve already been here too long!