End of term time

This weekend was fun, Saturday let's drinking and exploring more round Amemura ['america town', street fashion and people watching district] in Osaka with friends and met some cool people, then evening time a good night clubbing. Actually ended up going for an hour and a half of karaoke just with a friend, I don't actually like karaoke that much but I guess the right person can make you do anything. We went from there for some late night ramen in the pouring rain with a stall that had set up massive umbrellas over raised tatami mats, taking off your shoes and sitting off the ground cross legged eating as rain pours down around you in the dark was pretty fun :o) Sunday VISSEL KOBE ARE BACK first J-1 home game, great turnout, great atmosphere and I remembered my soccer ball glasses (that also double up as perv glasses, look at Alex wearing them below - blatantly designed for that) and a good time was had by all. (1-1 score... bit disappointed, by then end we deserved to win.)

From Sat: Osaka has SERIOUS flagship stores for two of the coolest Japanese brands, Commes des Garcons and Frapbois. It was so hard not to steal the Commes des Garcons bollard, the brand appealed to my adult brain and the bollard-ness of it to my student heart.


From the footie on Sunday: Wing stadium, soccer ball/perv glasses, the fans and our crew.



Here's some stuff from school.

Exams finished last week, and so I've had loads of lessons where I've had complete free reign, no syllabus, just 'do something fun for the end of term' type things. Highlights have included having the advanced reading class acting out scenes from famous movies (although most were pretty stilted, in the Godfather, Casablanca and Pulp Fiction ones, the kids were fantastic and really got into it), a too ambitious lesson where I draw a massive map of Japan on the board with various cities marked in and the kids move around like a board game based on how many english questions they can answer to get prizes, and having kids design new easter eggs, coming up with names, slogans and details:



Name: Strange Egg
Slogan: 100% Beef
Point: There is beef inside

Name: Energy in Power Chocolate
Slogan: A Nuclear explosion on explosive powerful egg
Point: There is plutonium inside

Name: Noriko Egg
Slogan: Eat Noriko
Point: She is guilty of bad taste!
(Noriko didn't seem at all annoyed by this.)

Name: Danger Egg
Slogan: You are in danger of losing your life!

Name: Pleasant Dreams!!
Slogan: Infinity faith

Name: Dinosaur Egg
Slogan: Dinosaur Egg of Danger. Though it is adventure, want to do people sure?

My favourite by FAR, it's so simple but so brilliant:



Awesome. I'll leave you with some pics of school uniforms designed by my kids. I often use a little design or something to draw them in, then BAM they have to talk about it and cos it's their own thing they want to show off they're a lot more expressive. I LOVE the one on the left with the extra skulls for decoration.