Level 4???
The caped crusader returns! Spared from being eaten by monstrous Japanese moths, my cape has been dug out of the closet and is getting maximum exposure this winter. all the wannabe harujuku gwals are jealous. the salary men are too.
BERLITZ
OK - so my new queeny co-worker (though apparently not a queen - he just plays one on TV) - just got BERLITZED by our troubled-with-anger-issues scottish supervisor. he had his review and "this was wrong" - "that was wrong" - fuck by the time Neall finished telling me the story, we decided that he had just been BERLITZED… i had my one week review as well. i excaped relatively unscathed, but i m waiting- sooner or later, i m going to get berlitzed as well…fo’ sho’
after working in the public school system here in japan on the JET program, being employed by a company like Berlitz is , well, it s a bit stressfull. it s like i took a two year break and slept. now my performance is being judged again. honestly, i feel as though i got paid loads of money to study japanese for the past two years. now you want me to WORK? whats that?.. oh well.. i guess that that is what has to be done to pay the many bills of an osakan existence - i like that - "an osakan existence"…
so the working schtick is going along. yesterday i taught a pair of young boys .. maybe in kindergarten - 1st grade? either way - they were the cutest things - they colored and the cute little one scribbled away when i gave them a time limit to finish.. he scribbled and went outside the lines to make it before i reached "1".. muttering under his breath… "kirai noni" translated - I FUCKING HATE YOU… he was cute - till he became posessed by by damion… then we played games and it was OK- though his frown never came off his face. after the boys i had a lesson with an adult student who was at level four. at this stage students should be able to do lots of exciting things like talk about business agreements / negotiations, make travel arrangements, talk about home life… that said, it was shocking when after i asked my level four what she did for a living / what she did with her day, i got the followning response,
I… あれ。。えと。。I… あれ。。。 (followed by an awkward silence that lasted for about 500 yen of my time) … i dont mean to pick on my students, but between damion and ms. misdiagnosed level four, i m going to be weary of my new line of work … i mean , now that i have to work again to preserve my osakan existence (3x).
HOMO THUGGIN IN DOYAMA
Doyama Cho is the gay distraict in Osaka. the whole block - maybe half a block - … on the night of the 12th - into the morning of the 13th (my 28th bday) , i decided to go to doyama to grab a drink before i met up with legenday neall and his girl kazuko to attend someone else’s bday pty (recap - lame music in foreigner bar - we had to ditch and grab ramen it was so bad… worked out fine though b/c of the company). walking along the strip in doyama i passed this one bar with this homo thuggy boyz outside - i was all HAAYYYY… not really , but in my mind it was very boyz in the hood .. replete with their baseball caps and oversized jeans, they took entered what is soon to become my new local haunt, JACK IN THE BOX - yes thats right… like the hamburger joint (from here on it shall be referred to JIB).. so, yeah, at JIB i had a bday toast to myself anbd scoped out the boyz in the Roca Wear.. cute cute… unfortunately, i had to go b/c my ride had come and i was off to the partay, but ill be back to find my karaoke signin, jay z listening, little light in the heals, samurai man - i ll fill you in when i find him
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