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「おはよう」は、最初のあいさつです。
Feb. 26th, 2008 06:35 pmToday was more productive than I thought or intended it to be. I taught all the 2nd year classes with Mr Nakamura and helped him mark tests. I felt important. I was only supposed to have 4 lessons but he moved the 5th from tomorrow to today to get all their tests done and handed back to them in the same period. Whatever, it just means I have only 2 tomorrow. Woo.
Mr Kaneko hasn't finished writing his final exam yet. He was supposed to get it to me for checking today, but didn't. Am I surprised? Not in the slightest. I saw the monstrosity he uses to type up his hand-outs. I wondered how he got them to look like they came off a typewriter. It's because they did. This thing is a dinosaur. I don't know how its still working. But he doesn't have any room on his desk for even a laptop computer, and given how he runs around like a chicken with his head chopped off most of the time, I'm not sure he could handle a real computer. Anyway, he said he'll get it to me tomorrow. My two classes are both with him so hopefully he'll have it done.
I don't start til 3rd, so I'm going to ask if I can go to the post office. It's a fucking pain in the ass because the bank side closes at 4pm so if I have to pay or transfer anything with them I can't. And I think those services are closed on the weekend too. The post side is open til 5pm and Saturdays but I need the bank side to submit my form for the Johnny's "Family Club". That just sounds so... gay. Anyway, if I can go first thing in the morning it'll take maybe 30 minutes. I have to get another form and copy everything out nice and neatly now that I've figured out all the things I need to write on it. I just hope they don't give me shit because I don't have a JP bank account. The red tape in this country sucks like you wouldn't believe. If they don't let me, I can go after school because at the Toyoshiki branch you can pay through the ATM, although I'd rather a person do it. Although, you just give them your form and your money and that's it, I bet. It's on my way to Keigo's anyway.
Right now, it's Aisatsu Week at school. Aisatsu can be translated as "greeting" but its more than a greeting. Every morning (and actually at the start and end of every lesson) the kids have to do aisatsu. They have to say 起立、気をつけ、礼 kiritsu, ki wo tsuke, rei. "Stand up, pay attention, bow." It's very militaristic and regimented. The kids though, are so fucking half-assed about it. There's one person assigned to lead the class in aisatsu and they will stand up and it basically stops there. They'll get quiet for a while, and maybe nod their heads at you instead of a bow. It's cute though in elementary school when they do aisatsu. They all snap to attention when the teacher says ki wo tsuke.
Aisatsu is pretty much anything used in greeting, anything in response... and a lot of ass kissing. Yvonne told me they are "set phrases to make social interactions go smoothly, from when you go to buy things to making business phone calls".
おはようございます Ohayo gozaimasu. Good morning.
すみません Sumimasen. Excuse me.
いらっしゃいませ Irasshaimase. Welcome.
失礼します Shitsurei shimasu. Excuse me for interrupting.
よろしくお願いしますYoroshiku onegashimasu. Please take care of it for me.
Everything anyone says to anyone at school is usually followed by yoroshiku onegaishimasu. I have even started to throw it around to cover my ass and make myself look polite.
I watched the Making Of for the Step and Go video and had to clip this part of the video because that's exactly how the kids look, especially first thing in the morning. I'm not even joking.
Mr Kaneko hasn't finished writing his final exam yet. He was supposed to get it to me for checking today, but didn't. Am I surprised? Not in the slightest. I saw the monstrosity he uses to type up his hand-outs. I wondered how he got them to look like they came off a typewriter. It's because they did. This thing is a dinosaur. I don't know how its still working. But he doesn't have any room on his desk for even a laptop computer, and given how he runs around like a chicken with his head chopped off most of the time, I'm not sure he could handle a real computer. Anyway, he said he'll get it to me tomorrow. My two classes are both with him so hopefully he'll have it done.
I don't start til 3rd, so I'm going to ask if I can go to the post office. It's a fucking pain in the ass because the bank side closes at 4pm so if I have to pay or transfer anything with them I can't. And I think those services are closed on the weekend too. The post side is open til 5pm and Saturdays but I need the bank side to submit my form for the Johnny's "Family Club". That just sounds so... gay. Anyway, if I can go first thing in the morning it'll take maybe 30 minutes. I have to get another form and copy everything out nice and neatly now that I've figured out all the things I need to write on it. I just hope they don't give me shit because I don't have a JP bank account. The red tape in this country sucks like you wouldn't believe. If they don't let me, I can go after school because at the Toyoshiki branch you can pay through the ATM, although I'd rather a person do it. Although, you just give them your form and your money and that's it, I bet. It's on my way to Keigo's anyway.
Right now, it's Aisatsu Week at school. Aisatsu can be translated as "greeting" but its more than a greeting. Every morning (and actually at the start and end of every lesson) the kids have to do aisatsu. They have to say 起立、気をつけ、礼 kiritsu, ki wo tsuke, rei. "Stand up, pay attention, bow." It's very militaristic and regimented. The kids though, are so fucking half-assed about it. There's one person assigned to lead the class in aisatsu and they will stand up and it basically stops there. They'll get quiet for a while, and maybe nod their heads at you instead of a bow. It's cute though in elementary school when they do aisatsu. They all snap to attention when the teacher says ki wo tsuke.
Aisatsu is pretty much anything used in greeting, anything in response... and a lot of ass kissing. Yvonne told me they are "set phrases to make social interactions go smoothly, from when you go to buy things to making business phone calls".
おはようございます Ohayo gozaimasu. Good morning.
すみません Sumimasen. Excuse me.
いらっしゃいませ Irasshaimase. Welcome.
失礼します Shitsurei shimasu. Excuse me for interrupting.
よろしくお願いしますYoroshiku onegashimasu. Please take care of it for me.
Everything anyone says to anyone at school is usually followed by yoroshiku onegaishimasu. I have even started to throw it around to cover my ass and make myself look polite.
I watched the Making Of for the Step and Go video and had to clip this part of the video because that's exactly how the kids look, especially first thing in the morning. I'm not even joking.
| 櫻井：あれ？今年あけって、五人そろうのは始めてじゃない？ | Are? Kotoshi agette, gonin sorou no ha hajimete janai? | Hey? Isn't it the first time the 5 of us got together this new year? |
| 松本：初だね。 | Hatsu da ne. | The first, ne. |
| 相葉：あけましておめでとうごさいま～す | Akemashite omedetou gozaimasu~ | Happy new year~ |
| 櫻井：おめでとうございます～ | Omedetou gozaimasu~ | Happy new year~ |
| 二宮：っございます～ | -- gozaimasu~ | -- new year~ |
| 大野：っございますッ | -- gozaimas. | -- year. |
| 二宮：ウワッ | Uwa | Uwa. |
| 松本：閉めるよ～ | Shimeru yo~ | The door is closing~ |
| 二宮：出た。 | De ta. | We're off. |
| 松本：本当だnew yearですよ。 | Hontou da new year desu yo. | It really is the new year, eh. |
| 相葉：本当ですねぇ。 | Hontou desu ne. | It is, isn't it. |
| 櫻井：大野さん。 | Oono-san. | Ohno-san. |
| 大野：？ | ? | ? |
| 相葉：新年あいさつ～ | Shinnen aisatsu~ | New year aisatsu~ |
| 大野：お願いします！ | Onegaishimasu! | Onegaishimasu! |
| 松本：もう一回。[?] | Mou ikkai. | One more time. |
| 相葉：今年も。 | Kotoshi mo. | This year too... |
| 大野：daskfjadkfaj? | Ongaishimashuuuu. | Ongaishimashuuuu. |