I heart Omagari KouKou

I Heart Omagari KouKou

Every Jet/ALT gets a Japanese Supervisor who is in charge of getting them acclimated to life in Japan, usually they are also a teacher at the school the ALT works at. Mine is both, he looks after me and is a co-worker. We got a bromance going on, I absolutely have a blast anytime we hang out and talk. I would say he is one of my friends rather than just a co-worker. I think its very hard to get close to someone from a different culture. Now I am just basing this on my short experience in Uganda, where I made no friends amongst the teachers at Gulu High School. Me and Kan-Sensei just connect, I feel like I am talking to a friend back home, and we laugh, I mean good powerful laughter, not the kind hearted type. Today was sports day at Omagari High School, think of it as an all day field day/pep rally. Kan and I spent the day watching the students compete, even participating ourselves, but the high light of the day was watching the track and field competition. The students were competing in the 100 yd dash, i think its already funny to watch people run fast. Their face contorts, they wiggle their arms uncomfortably, their legs shake. But this one students takes the fucking cake for funniest run EVER. Now it wont be funny to describe, but trust me. He was so awkward, picture a giraffe running with the body of a small japanese boy with glasses. His brain was obviously working slower than his legs. The rest of him could just not keep up with his legs, he was stumbling and bumbling down the track. He took two massive spills with his legs just flipping him into a complete somersault and he would get back up and continue. He fell twice and Kan and I just about peed our pants. I mean the whole school was laughing but we were out of control. The kind of laugh were if you look at the other person laughing you just lose it. The kind of laughter where everyone is finished and your still going, the kind where you have to put your head in your hands because you just cant look up. Tears were in my eyes, it was beautiful.....and the kid was ok i think, i hope he didnt see us!

Akuri! Akuri is my favorite student , she was my favorite student the minute i met her. If you look up the term positive energy, you will see a picture of her. She is a complete bundle of happiness. Every time I see her she is smiling, acting crazy, making people laugh. She has this great way of making these awesome facial expressions every time she speaks english (her english is exceptional) you can just see it in her that she is trying so hard. She is also in my favorite class at Omagari , there is about 15 of them and they must all be friends since elementary school. They get along so well and make teaching them an absolute joy. Today during sports day I got to help them in the tug of war contest, there are only three boys in the class so their team was at a slight disadvantage, so Akuri asked me to help out, I was honored. We lost due to the fact that the other team had a student that looked like brock lesnar on their team. I swear he is the one kid in Japan who weighs more than 120lbs. Oh well, it was still fun.