So I have been pretty busy lately. I am pretty sure that I am always going to be busy because of this job. But it's cool because I get summers off and stuff like that. It's definitely much better than my last job. The problem is that when I get some free time, I don't really know what to do with it. It's the weekend right now, and I am totally lost. I am sitting around the house doing nothing. I have watched some movies, played some video games, drew some pictures, coded some homepage, played some guitar, and so on. But it's really boring. I want to get out but I have some sort of weird throat-cold, so I am trying not to go out too much. But maybe I should.

So, one interesting thing happened to me the other day. I was interviewed for this Japanese TV show called "Gakkou e Ikou," which means "Let's go to school." They basically go around the country and interview various schoolkids and film their antics. Usually the interviewers are the popular teen singing group V6, but they weren't there this time. Some of my students were being interviewed in front of the station when I was walking home, and they roped me in and made me be interviewed too. It was only a little bit, and I doubt I will make it onto TV, but it was kinda fun. After the interview, they were getting addresses and phone numbers and such, so that they could get clearances from the kids' parents, and one of the teachers came up and was all in a rage about them asking kids for their phone numbers, so they had an argument for a few minutes. I guess that they had credentials from the TV station, because he settled down after a few minutes.

Oh by the way, as per Vincent's suggestion, I played "Sabotage" in class for the kids the other day. They didn't really like it that much though. It's too tongue-in-cheek and ironic for them I guess. They were very upset that the song and video and title didn't seem to match each other particularly. In Japanese there's a word "saboru" that comes from the English word sabotage. In Japanese it means to slack off or skip class, so obviously the kids use this word all the time. They were very surprised to find that it means to blow stuff up or otherwise interfere with things in English. And they were even more surprised to find no explosions or slackers in the video. And they had no basis for evaluating the faux-70s-cop-show theme of the video. They just thought it was lame. I think that this week I am going to show them Mahna Mahna. Let's see what they make of that.