Stories From Japanese Class Part Three

Next week is finals week so soon I will be saying goodbye to my group of goofy dudes. Yesterday was our last day of regular class and next week all we have is the final, which is a brochure. Probably won't be getting up to too many antics next week but we've had a lot of fun this past week.

So we often mess around during break and while waiting for class to start. We have done everything from look up the origin of the word poopdeck to playing Cards Against Humanity. Last Monday Bulbasaur-san decided to show me a video of the Jurasic Park theme song played on a recorder but as the song started playing the teacher had us stand up to bow at the start of class. Took a couple tries to turn off the video so once again the teacher was staring at us for doing something weird.

Our final is a brochure and in the second half of class this week we were working on that instead of doing regular lessons. Three of the people at my table brought their computers but Charmander-san was just playing a game on his Nintendo. His argument was that he didn't have his laptop with him so I pointed out he could write stuff out in his notebook. To further encourage him, I picked up my notebook and shook it near him saying "ノート！” (nooto) which is notebook in Japanese. Bulbasaur-san also picked up his notebook and said "ノート！” and basically ever since that day every time the teacher mentions you need to get out a notebook we shake our notebooks at each other while saying "ノート！”...it's really dumb but that's why it's so funny.

My Japanese teacher does this thing where she will ask various questions and students can raise their hands to answer them. In an effort to be a good student I try to always raise my hand to answer one because I'm not too scared of messing up (learning is shouting out the wrong answer with confidence, folks). My teacher asked the question ”きのう、テレベで何が見ましたか？” which means "did you watch TV yesterday?" Now the other day I decided to start watching a kdrama series so I had been watching that the night before so I decided to raise my hand and answer saying that I did watch TV yesterday. However, apparently my teacher had asked ”きのう、テレビで何を見ましたか？” which means "what did you watch on TV yesterday?" Being the honest person I am, I awkwardly said kdrama in an effort to answer the question correctly but before I could get that far the whole entire classroom, and especially the teacher, were laughing their heads off. It was embarrassing but hey I did enjoy the show and as long as the teacher still has a good opinion of me I don't mind.