At school

Today I spent the day at St. Nick & Mary Elementary. I’m exhausted but the kids were so much fun.

They were a bit wigged out by the nori and I was surprised that they didn’t really like the green tea (sweetened, even). We learn some soroban basics; took pictures with the digital camera; tried writing our names with katakana. I told them stories and we wrote kanji. It was a day full of Japan and Japanese things. I hope they had a good time; I definitely did.

I had lunch in the cafeteria—hamburger, fries, overcooked beans and canned apricots. School lunches have not changed in the last 20 years.

Will today’s activities help me get over jet-lag? Probaly not. I’m feeling that dead tired drag right now. My brin is melting and my body is cold to the core. Must go have some more of the leftover green tea, I think.

Posted by kuri at January 22, 2003 06:49 AM