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I thought emergency procedures in Japan would be pretty much the same as America. As with everything here, I am dead wrong.	Ah, step one of a firedrill: hide under your desks. Wait, huh? I guess they combined firedrill day and earthquake drill day.	This guy lectures the students on the safety of not being set on fire.
So far, the evacuation was the same as what I'm used to. Except that Sports Sensei insisted I pretended to cough and choke in the hallways to add to the realism.	The guy lectures a little more. I like to imagine he's saying, "Seriously? Don't get set on fire."	And now they're filling up buckets with wood and pouring gasoline on them, just like in Ameri-- Wait, what?
Dude, the fire marshall just lit a bucket of gasoline on fire! In front of students! This is the coolest country ever!	Ah, he's showing the kids how to put it out. This is sort of like the "Vague Pointing to the Instructions Written on the Extinguisher" Method our schoolteachers taught us.	Holy crap, now the kids are doing it!
Yeah, this would last all of 2.5 seconds in America before some smartass kid turned around and sprayed the crowd.	The girls look on in awe at the extinguished gas bucket.	This is a really good idea, considering, for all my years of firedrills, I've never actually used an extinguisher. I have set off the fire alarm, though, but that was because certain theater directors back-sassed me when I said we should use the smoke machine "sparingly."