My crazy school
My school is crazy. I have told numerous people this but I think today proved it.
Kocho Sensei and Shucho Sensei were arguing about something in the office. Shucho Sensei kept telling Kocho Sensei to sit down and leave him alone. Kocho Sensei always replied with “I don’t want to”. This had all of the teachers in the teachers’ room laughing (myself included).
This went on for a good four minutes and then Kyoto Sensei looked up and joked, in Japanese, “Stop it! Erin is going to go back to America and tell everyone that all the Japanese people are crazy. Japanese people are not crazy. Only this school is crazy!”
Kyoto Sensei then looked at me and said in English, “Only this school is crazy. No other schools. Just this school.” I could not stop smiling or laughing. I told him that I understood and that this school was crazy but that I liked it.
After this, I was told, “Go home, quickly” because there was a teachers’ meeting. Kocho Sensei then looked at the clock and realized that I was being let out really early and changed the “Go home quickly” to “Super-Hyper-speed, go home quickly”.
Beth e-mailed me at 7:00pm and asked me if I wanted to come over and practice yoga. Andrea and I got to her house at 7:45ish and we did yoga until 9:00. Beth started me on a couple of beginner flow patterns and then started having me hold different poses. I had to ask her to hold me in position a couple of times because I was going to fall over. By the end of the lesson my legs were shaking but it was good. I felt the work out.
We finished Letters from Iwo Jima last night and I will admit I cried.
I knew how the movie was going to end up one of the final shots got to me. The shot was of a Japanese soldier on Iwo Jima looking out into the see and seeing the sunset. Japan is known as “The land of the rising sun” and the shot of the sunset really got to me. It just symbolized what Japan had been fighting for and then what they lost.
I thought the movie was well done. Kevin read some of the complaints that people had made about the movie such as the Japanese soldiers using English-Katakana words at a couple of points when they wouldn’t have done that. (I thought that was a bit picky.) There was also a complaint that only the officers who had spent time in America were being portrayed as good, kind, and decent, while the rest of the officers were portrayed negatively. I think I want to do a little more research about the Japanese officer mentality before I decide how I feel about that. I thought the film did capture that Japanese soldier spirit during the war really well.