Through the Eyes of a Vagrant

In the washrooms they often have a child seat you sit your child in while you use the toilet. I couldn’t help but chuckle at this as a few captions flew into my mind at the time.

Left top: “If you put on makeup in the washroom, your child may suddenly be overcome with uncontrollable [...]

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In general, the students at my schools do their best to say some English whenever I see them. Many times this just amounts to a simple hello. This applies to the teachers too. Many of them say good morning to me as opposed to ohayou gozaimasu. Some of them will even [...]

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It’s fun being a good Samaritan, but sometimes trying to be a good person makes you forget other things.
The bus that comes by one of my schools that goes to the station I want to go to often takes an hour and a half to arrive. There is another bus that comes by more often, [...]

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Before I came to Japan, I heard from many people that there is no discipline in Japan.  Believe me, there is discipline - it just doesn’t present itself in the form we know of in Canada because everyone’s way of thinking in Japan is so different from ours.  I’ve seen kids get told off in [...]

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Speaking Japanese when you are on the JET Programme is nothing but a pro, there are no cons (other than they know your level and speak faster). In the classroom, because I spoke Japanese, they let me teach solo on just my second day. I am most definitely allowed to use Japanese in class, and [...]

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Girls at my schools are already starting to crush on me.  Today I was in class and one of the ichinensei (first year) girls was asking me question after question.  She was really interested in me.  Then she asked me if she could see my glasses.  So I handed them over no problem.  But then [...]

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So today I was told by a student that because of my spiky hair I look like a “pengie.” A pengie is a penguin, but I was unaware that penguins had hair. After searching around I couldn’t find any pengies with spiky hair. I’m stumped!
I made my first trip to the McDonalds [...]

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