Short skirt and a long Jacket...
Answer me this: How can these Japanese people (women and girls) walk around the city wearing a skirt in this kind of weather?
Walking to school today (no bikes due to the approaching hurricane) I noticed many people on the train and the road to school that 95% all the women were wearing skirts. Not the skirts that are cut off at the calf or the ankle but showing considerable amount of thigh. ITS FRICKEN FREEZING OUTSIDE!! Here I am in jeans, long sleeve shirt, and a fleece sewater, and they're walking around like its mid June. I mean they do have some weather protection clothing like a cardigan or something but honestly what are they thinking. Not that I'm complaining the number of girls wearing skirts (which I am all for) but I think I know why Japanese peoples' skin are so pale... they freeze their skin in the fall and winter.
Anyway so the first couple days of the week has been very busy. When Krystal and I put in a movie after dinner we both seem to be falling asleep before the movie finsihes. From Krystal that is almost certain but for me to fall asleep.
Interesting thing happened on Monday. I was at my base school doing my usual thing when the teacher told me that there was gonan be a drill of some kind in the morning. I tried to figure out what the drill was for but they couldn't translate for me. I guessed fire, earthquake, hurricane, but I got no's. So anyway 11:00 comes around when I hear a bunch of shouting. The shouting wasn't to have students to be quiet and stuff but I man yelling at the top of his lungs. So I look around and everyone is in a panic. The V.P. is barking out orders and tells me to follow the music teacher that sits infront of me. And she has a "stick" a weapon of some sort. So naturally I start to get a little worried. Then the in the hall the shouting gets louder. The V.P. tells everyone to go out and everyone literally books it out the door. So I follow the teachers to the hallway where a steady dtream of students are filing out of the building onto the playground. One of teh SPED teachers tell me to grab a stilt for protevtion. (note: Japanese Elementary school are a breeding ground for clowns. At every school there are many unicycles and stilts that the students can entartain themselves... and they do.) So anyway I grab a stilt and stand "guard" of the doorway. As the students start to trickle out, all the teachers have some sort of weapon, yard sticks, mops, brooms, chairs, etc. So now I'm going into scared mode. Then all of a sudden a man appears at the end of the hallway staring at the doorway where I am stationed. He starts to run straight towards us. The teachers slam the door shut and wedge the stilts behind the handles to lock the door. Me, I standing there stilt in hand wondering what the hell is going on. The man appears to be semi-scruffy. Unshaven, mirrored sunglasses, and apparently very disgruntled. He then disappears back in the perpendicular hallway. Then I see the staff coordinator raising his hands in victory as if he just defeated a gladiator and runs to follow the disgruntled man.
I turn around and see that all the kids were sitting there on the playground looking as if nothign is happening. Then it finally dawns on me, this is the drill. Students are turning towards me and waving and smiling. Then from the other door, the man comes out screaming a yelling at something or someone. The V.P, Principal, staff coordinator, the science teacher, and teh P.E. teacher are now circling the dude with poles, brooms and other weapons. The man starts comign towards the students when police officers arrive on the seen. Full dressed officers in riot gear are stepping towards him with shields and batons. They start to fight a little and then man is brought down and cuffed. Then an important looking man in a suit walks towards us. He has a bullhorn and starts talking. The jist: this was a drill if an intruder has entered your school. Teachers are to protect the students unitl the police arrive. What an experience. Not to mention that T.V. crews were vidoe taping the whoile ordeal and I believe we were on T.V. I dunno I don't have one yet. Anyway this school had a special intruder drill since the school is completely enclosed and the rooms are all open with no real doors so all the students are to easy access to anyone that just wanders in the school. An intruder drill....
And on Tuesday nothing happened...
Oh by the way, there is yet another hurricane coming to Kyoto. Supposedly a really bad one, hitting us sometime this late afternoon, early evening. and just when I was getting over a cold...
Break it down!
Walking to school today (no bikes due to the approaching hurricane) I noticed many people on the train and the road to school that 95% all the women were wearing skirts. Not the skirts that are cut off at the calf or the ankle but showing considerable amount of thigh. ITS FRICKEN FREEZING OUTSIDE!! Here I am in jeans, long sleeve shirt, and a fleece sewater, and they're walking around like its mid June. I mean they do have some weather protection clothing like a cardigan or something but honestly what are they thinking. Not that I'm complaining the number of girls wearing skirts (which I am all for) but I think I know why Japanese peoples' skin are so pale... they freeze their skin in the fall and winter.
Anyway so the first couple days of the week has been very busy. When Krystal and I put in a movie after dinner we both seem to be falling asleep before the movie finsihes. From Krystal that is almost certain but for me to fall asleep.
Interesting thing happened on Monday. I was at my base school doing my usual thing when the teacher told me that there was gonan be a drill of some kind in the morning. I tried to figure out what the drill was for but they couldn't translate for me. I guessed fire, earthquake, hurricane, but I got no's. So anyway 11:00 comes around when I hear a bunch of shouting. The shouting wasn't to have students to be quiet and stuff but I man yelling at the top of his lungs. So I look around and everyone is in a panic. The V.P. is barking out orders and tells me to follow the music teacher that sits infront of me. And she has a "stick" a weapon of some sort. So naturally I start to get a little worried. Then the in the hall the shouting gets louder. The V.P. tells everyone to go out and everyone literally books it out the door. So I follow the teachers to the hallway where a steady dtream of students are filing out of the building onto the playground. One of teh SPED teachers tell me to grab a stilt for protevtion. (note: Japanese Elementary school are a breeding ground for clowns. At every school there are many unicycles and stilts that the students can entartain themselves... and they do.) So anyway I grab a stilt and stand "guard" of the doorway. As the students start to trickle out, all the teachers have some sort of weapon, yard sticks, mops, brooms, chairs, etc. So now I'm going into scared mode. Then all of a sudden a man appears at the end of the hallway staring at the doorway where I am stationed. He starts to run straight towards us. The teachers slam the door shut and wedge the stilts behind the handles to lock the door. Me, I standing there stilt in hand wondering what the hell is going on. The man appears to be semi-scruffy. Unshaven, mirrored sunglasses, and apparently very disgruntled. He then disappears back in the perpendicular hallway. Then I see the staff coordinator raising his hands in victory as if he just defeated a gladiator and runs to follow the disgruntled man.
I turn around and see that all the kids were sitting there on the playground looking as if nothign is happening. Then it finally dawns on me, this is the drill. Students are turning towards me and waving and smiling. Then from the other door, the man comes out screaming a yelling at something or someone. The V.P, Principal, staff coordinator, the science teacher, and teh P.E. teacher are now circling the dude with poles, brooms and other weapons. The man starts comign towards the students when police officers arrive on the seen. Full dressed officers in riot gear are stepping towards him with shields and batons. They start to fight a little and then man is brought down and cuffed. Then an important looking man in a suit walks towards us. He has a bullhorn and starts talking. The jist: this was a drill if an intruder has entered your school. Teachers are to protect the students unitl the police arrive. What an experience. Not to mention that T.V. crews were vidoe taping the whoile ordeal and I believe we were on T.V. I dunno I don't have one yet. Anyway this school had a special intruder drill since the school is completely enclosed and the rooms are all open with no real doors so all the students are to easy access to anyone that just wanders in the school. An intruder drill....
And on Tuesday nothing happened...
Oh by the way, there is yet another hurricane coming to Kyoto. Supposedly a really bad one, hitting us sometime this late afternoon, early evening. and just when I was getting over a cold...
Break it down!
posted by Chris at 1:32 PM
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