 This is dark, but I'm giving a PowerPoint Presentation to a class of super energetic grandmothers who want to learn English.
This is dark, but I'm giving a PowerPoint Presentation to a class of super energetic grandmothers who want to learn English.
|  I'm so happy because I get to talk about myself for 3 hours straight! And people care!
I'm so happy because I get to talk about myself for 3 hours straight! And people care!
|  A student awkwardly tries to get me to marry her grandson. I sidestep the question by insinuating that I like chicks.
A student awkwardly tries to get me to marry her grandson. I sidestep the question by insinuating that I like chicks.
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 Just kidding. This grandma in the middle is actually really funny. She said I should write a television show all about her and how cool she is. My kinda lady.
Just kidding. This grandma in the middle is actually really funny. She said I should write a television show all about her and how cool she is. My kinda lady.
|  I inform them that white people can indeed use chopsticks. Grandma is shocked into a coronary.
I inform them that white people can indeed use chopsticks. Grandma is shocked into a coronary.
|  Dance, Monkey Girl! Dance!
Dance, Monkey Girl! Dance!
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 This man came to photograph me and the town's General Information Pamphlet that they will use...for the next 3 years. I'm huge in Japan!
This man came to photograph me and the town's General Information Pamphlet that they will use...for the next 3 years. I'm huge in Japan!
|  Question and Answer.
Question and Answer.
|  Pretend there's not a camera in my face.
Pretend there's not a camera in my face.
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 There's that classic gaijin nose!
There's that classic gaijin nose!
|  I am SO HAPPY to pretend to love sea urchin!
I am SO HAPPY to pretend to love sea urchin!
|  The woman in the middle is so excited for our lunch date, her nose started to bleed. Just like in Anime!
The woman in the middle is so excited for our lunch date, her nose started to bleed. Just like in Anime!
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 The kind ladies watch to make sure I don't make any cultural faux pas like sticking my chopsticks upright in my rice, thereby insulting generations of their ancestors.
The kind ladies watch to make sure I don't make any cultural faux pas like sticking my chopsticks upright in my rice, thereby insulting generations of their ancestors.
|  The group, and my Japanese tutor in blue, Sakamoto-sensei. I was really lucky to be a part of this. I frickin' love old ladies! The group, and my Japanese tutor in blue, Sakamoto-sensei. I was really lucky to be a part of this. I frickin' love old ladies! |