A Japanese Christmas
Today I had one of my elective classes after my normal lessons and this time it was reading. The teacher for this class is an older lady (most of the teachers at the school are young) who until today had never taught me, but always says hello if I see her in the corridor etc. Maybe my reputation as a troublemaker precedes me! In class we read an extract from the autobiography of Kitano Takeshi (a famous Japanese actor). The story was pretty dismal; detailing how his father used to frequently come home drunk. The main episode was when his sister tried to have a Christmas party at home and his father ruined the Christmas cake by deliberately knocking the table over! The interesting thing about the story was because it was a family setting the language was very casual. In particular, the father’s dialogue mostly consisted of him swearing at his children and making drunken noises. Fortunately, I haven’t really been exposed to that type of Japanese so much (apart from the odd student in my old job of course!).