One of the jobs I have to do this weekend is put together the school newsletter. As I mentioned before Nozaki sensei is going to be out of town for a little bit, so I’m going to cover that chore. That means writing a lot of Japanese that will be inspected by all my students and their parents. Luckily Kuniko is my secret weapon and she can help me fix the errors that will surely crop up.
Another tradition recently is to publish some pictures of me that my students have drawn. The age range in my classes is pretty big, so we got submissions of all kinds. Nozaki sensei gave me some of the pictures to choose from this month, and I couldn’t resist posting them here, too.
I like this one a lot. My stubble makes a prominent appearance here, as it is a big talking point in class along with my arm hair. Kids love touching my arm hair. The artist here is Mia Nakamura, who is 7 years old and in one of my beginning English classes. Nozaki sensei said I look Japanese in this picture – kind of a tired old salaryman look.
Bryan in manga form. This one creeps me out a little bit and looks like me about as much as Mona Lisa does. Where did my stubble go? This one is by Arisa Takeda, who is one of my junior high school students.
