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High School in Japan, Part 2.5
by , January 17th, 2013 at 03:21 AM (2778 Views)
Despite it being the transition period between classes, a small crowd had somehow gathered to watch the miraculous spectacle that is, you guessed it, my making small talk in English with one of the resident English-speaking English teachers (if this seems redundant, think again), who hailed from New Zealand. (You'd think that they'd be tired of this by now, wouldn't you?)
Not one to let an educational opportunity pass by, instead of nicely requesting them to please GET THEIR ASSES TO CLASS the teacher turned to the onlookers and asked them (in Japanese) if they could distinguish the difference in our accents.
Silence.
Undaunted, the teacher continued that New Zealand andEaglelandMurricaGermanythe United States were quite far from each other and had different customs, so it was only natural that there would be some difference. Could they spot some of them?
Startled looks. It's almost as if they didn't know that New Zealand and the United States were, in fact, two separate and entirely different places.
...Oh wait.
Well, I don't blame them. It's quite hard to tell apart all us gaijin when your world map looks like this:
I exaggerate. But only a little.
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