
Happy New Year!
I think I taught my first homosexual today. He said he was a graduate student studying dentistry and his hobby was bodybuilding. He looked like a bodybuilder, but he was wearing a woman’s perfume, had 4 earrings on his left ear, and wore lots of jewelry. One of the women in the class asked him if he was gay. He laughed and denied it but I found it hard to believe, especially since he wants to spend time in San Francisco training for bodybuilding. Another woman asked him to take off his shirt and show his muscles. He laughed a bit and didn’t say anything. I think if they asked some more, he actually would have done it right there. He obviously enjoyed the attention.
And, in one of the children’s classes, there’s this boy who kept busily moving his finger between his nose and his mouth. Kids.
But all in all, I suppose today was a good day.
The Japanese school year (and fiscal year) starts in April, and today was the first day of children’s classes since the spring vacation. Several children quit, and a few joined. Nearly all the classes have different members from a few weeks ago. I miss some of the children who quit or changed classes. I wonder how schoolteachers teach different children year after year.











