Another picture:
Here is one-half of my favorite class. Ok, really, it's only one girl that is my favorite. She's really sweet, and nice and her English is 3rd best in the school. She lived in Florida for 3 years when she was 5. Hm...She is the 5th from the right. I guess this pic is kinda blurry, but anyway, it also sort of shows the layout of the classrooms here, and the girl's uniform.
Oh, the girl on the far right, she gave me the middle finger the 2nd day. I was SO astonished and mortified and confused...and hurt. It turns out, it was in response to my double thumbs down. She can't speak a word of English. and actually, she's probably one of the most annoying, loud, obnoxious, troublesome kids in the whole school (of 745 students)...so...we communicate by hand gestures. She was giving me winks, but with a sort of....snoot snide way to it. so i would respond back in the same manner. one thing led to another, she was giving me a thumbs up, as a joke, i gave a thumbs down, and then she gave me a middle finger. i found out later, that the thumbs down gesture basically means "f--- you" in Japan. And i gave it to her double time. So...I guess in retrospect, I kind of "deserved" it? But anyhow, it really scared and worried me my first week here.
but now we're ok. We have this mutual understanding, that if we're both civil and fake our kindness to each other, we won't get in each other's way.
so be it.
haha
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