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So, this morning when I got up to go to work, there was no water coming out of my hot water taps. Turns out the pipes had frozen! And then when I went to leave the house, there was ice on my doorknob. The inside of my doorknob. Ice inside my house, this is not awesome in any way.
In other news, according to Japanese tradition yesterday was the day where you throw beans to keep evil spirits out of your house/work. I thought this meant we would stand in the doorways of my school and toss beans outside or something -- but it turned out that it meant two year five boys bursting into the staffroom dressed up as demons, hollering "WE ARE DEMONS AND WE ARE VERY EVIL" (or something to that effect), and then hiding behind my chair as a bunch of other year fives burst in the other door yelling "WE HAVE COME TO DEFEAT THE DEMONS!" and hurling unshelled peanuts at the demons. I mean seriously hurling. I had to evacuate my chair to hide over by the sofa. They ran all around the staffroom and then the demons surrendered, and I was finding peanuts in odd places for the rest of the day. I got some photos, but photos of six or seven year fives running around the staffroom hurling peanuts mostly comes out as blurs.
It was awesome.
In other news, according to Japanese tradition yesterday was the day where you throw beans to keep evil spirits out of your house/work. I thought this meant we would stand in the doorways of my school and toss beans outside or something -- but it turned out that it meant two year five boys bursting into the staffroom dressed up as demons, hollering "WE ARE DEMONS AND WE ARE VERY EVIL" (or something to that effect), and then hiding behind my chair as a bunch of other year fives burst in the other door yelling "WE HAVE COME TO DEFEAT THE DEMONS!" and hurling unshelled peanuts at the demons. I mean seriously hurling. I had to evacuate my chair to hide over by the sofa. They ran all around the staffroom and then the demons surrendered, and I was finding peanuts in odd places for the rest of the day. I got some photos, but photos of six or seven year fives running around the staffroom hurling peanuts mostly comes out as blurs.
It was awesome.