This week is the annual third grade class trip. Every junior high in the country has one, and they pretty much all go to Kyoto. My school is going from Friday to Sunday. My previous school is going from Tuesday to Thursday. Every school in the world goes sometime during the travel season. I also really love Kyoto and kinda wanted to go with them. Of course lots of kids are asking me if I'm going and all that, but also some of the teachers invited me this year. I'm pretty sure it's against the rules for us to go, but I could easily take vacation and go along, because it's mostly on the weekend anyway. So I was kinda considering going. But I thought about it, and decided I would be really lonely. I mean, my kids are cool, and I get along with pretty much everybody, but I don't think that you can really count on them for companionship for three whole days. Three days hanging out with just the kids and my fruitcake teachers would probably drive me crazy. It'd be kinda cool if I was going with some people, or visiting some people down there, so I could only hang out with them some of the time, but that's not the case. Too bad though; sometimes it seems like it would be a lot of fun.

So anyway I am watching TV just now, and I see a commercial for a new Cola from Coca-Cola. Nothing strange about that, you think. Coke is a big brand here in Japan, even though they don't sell very much cola in comparison to how much coffee and tea and sports drinks and other stuff like that they push down our throats, so of course they are releasing new things all the time. Probably you have even seen this drink in America or wherever the hell you are. It's called Coca-Cola C2. The unfortunate part about this is that when rendered into proper Japanese Katakana pronunciation, it comes out sounding like "coca cora shits."