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Japanese Teacher

18.01.2006 · Posted in General

Parce que dans la jungle des écrits d’éxilés au Japon, celui-ci est particulièrement sympathique :

Un prof d’anglais au Japon

Extrait :

« At one of my schools, I have nicknames for my kids. I have around 900-1000 students in total, so learning everyone’s name is quite hard. It’s easy to nickname them though, and at one school in particular there were certain attributes that just jumped out.

These are my personal nicknames – I don’t actually call the kids these, and soon you’ll see why. Not all of them are the nicest thing in the world, but I never claimed to be a saint. […]

Ah-buuh – She gained this nickname because her lips ARE NEVER CLOSED. She’s a quiet girl so it’s not that she’s talking, it’s just she always keeps her bottom lip hanging down, and the expression on her face… »Ah-buuh » is the sound you’d imagine coming from that face.

One day, I was in class, and I saw a girl I’d never seen before. I spent a few minutes trying to figure out who she was…a new student? A transfer? Did I just never notice her before? Eventually, I came to the shocking realization that it was Ah-buuh with her lips closed. I didn’t even recognize her. « 

« IROON COOOOOKULU » (Hiroki-san in Futurama)

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