Okay okay, a short aroha! I haven't been up to too much trouble this week. Mostly my class has been getting ready to go to Australia. They are all very excited to buy foreign clothing and Tim Tams. I made sure they all knew that my birthday is coming up and mentioned several times the subject of souvenirs ehehe. Someone offered to get me vegemite (vile-mite if you ask me). Yesterday I got the cutest letter from a girl in class 7. She was determined to write in English. Here's part of it, 'I'm not good at write a letter in English. So my friends help me. I write letter hard for you again.' She's really funny, always singing KISS songs in the hallway. Speaking of strange things, the other day I proofread a wedding speech a Japanese man had written. In the end it said something like 'I invite guests with us to send this couple in Bryant's cut.' I had NO idea what he was trying to say! So I made some sappy stuff up about meat cuts ad hair cuts, just kidding. And another instance today! One of my Japanese teachers was translating English stuff into Japanese and he asked me what 'valiant a smacking' is… He had me and all the English teachers stumped. There's a whooooole other English out there, the strange and mysterious Japanese English, not to be confused with 'Engrish'. Engrish is when the Japanese spell English the way it sounds in Japanese. If you want some good examples make sure you don't have to pee and check out www.engrish.com, there are some that’ll make you laugh so hard and some that'll just have you stumped! Here's one that I took a picture of while shopping...