Stories from Japanese Class Part Two

Because sitting in a classroom full of young adults will always be entertaining, I have more stories.

As a quick reminder, here is where my classmates sit and what I call them:

So for some reason or another during break Bulbasaur-san was showing Squirtle-san how to balance a pen on his finger. Charmander-san and I joined in for a bit before I decided that I should balance stuff on my head instead since I'm quite good at it. I took my textbook, workbook, and notebook and put them on my head. Charmander-san did the same. I then proceeded to put a worksheet then a piece of paper and possibly something else on my head before sitting there to show off my skill. Charmander-san had a similar amount of stuff on his head so we just sat there with books and stuff on our heads. Bulbasaur-san thought this was hilarious so he took a picture. While we were still sitting there with all the random stuff on our heads, the break ended and the teacher started talking again. We started rushing to get the random stuff off our heads but not before the teacher noticed and stopped talking for a second confused as to what we were doing. Shortly after we got the books off our heads and I hid my face in embarrassment but was also laughing because of how ridiculous it was.

In class we were learning how to say what we do and don't like doing. The workbook assignment gave us a variety of activities to put in and one of them was doing laundry. We were discussing what we thought of doing laundry and whether or not we liked it. The general consensus was we didn't care either way but Squirtle-san apparently really likes doing laundry and started describing what doing the laundry is like. Now mind you this is an international student explaining it so while his English is really good it's not perfect all the time. While explaining doing laundry, he said "and you put in the sauce" which made the rest of the table bust up laughing. He didn't exactly seem to notice that he used the wrong word (sauce instead of laundry detergent). However, that was probably one of the funniest word switches I have ever heard. I'll probably do this a lot trying to speak Japanese. I already mix up the words for dictionary and ceiling.