Weekword – Yellow

Yellow was chosen by Erika from Hub 52.

Yellow does not really have any special meaning in Japan. The internet suggests that it represents courage but all the Japanese people I asked said that it had no significance to them. So instead I’m going to show what it means to me.

Yellow is the colour of my favourite local sports team: Sendai 89ers Basketball Team. Yellow for me means going to games with my friends and supporting our city. When people visit my place they mention that I love yellow because it’s full of yellow things but really I just like the basketball team and have their goods on my walls.

Go go 9ers!

Sendai 89ers goods on my walls

My first 89ers game with friends last year

Showing support!

Showing off the team captain (who is smaller than me!!)

Happy New Year! 2012!

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Opinions needed

Life-changing decision to be made: fringe or no fringe?

It’s that time of year again. It’s getting colder in Japan and I’m beginning to start thinking ‘Hey! If I got a fringe it wouldn’t be plastered to my forehead like in summer AND it would cover my massive fivehead (a forehead but bigger)!’. However, I can’t remember if there was a reason that I grew my fringe out apart from the whole plastered to the face thing…..

So I need some opinions please. To help you out I’ve complied some reference photos (also known as ‘Emily’s hair through the years’).

Rocking the fringe from a young age (on the left). I have no idea what face I'm making. I was a strange child.

 

I 'think' I am 18 in this picture.... (also on the left). Sorry for the small picture!

20. Still with a fringe. My mother is not having me pose for a picture at all. Nope.

21 and beginning to rock the 'side fringe' look. Also known as 'growing out a fringe and have no idea what to do with it' look.

22 and it's almost grown out completely.

Now (right). 23 and no fringe.

I don’t know!!

 

Strange Student Work 1

Personally, I think one of the best things about being a teacher is the moments when you look at a piece of student work and burst out laughing. Sometimes they mean to be funny and sometimes they don’t but my students never fail to amuse me. I’ve shown quite a lot of student artwork before ( Day 341, Day 332 and Day 311 just for starters. Click on the ‘Teaching English’ link to the right to see some more) but I was scrolling through my blog the other day and realised I haven’t shown much actual written English work recently (the older two I could find were  Day 206 and Day 61). So here are a few examples of student work that amused me in the past week:

I had no idea this student felt that way! Ha ha!

 

Wait...what? (took me ages to work out they meant the pen has an eraser)

The top sentence might seem strange until you see the picture I was making them describe...

Much more interesting than the usual examples!

Project 365 – Day 365

My blog in words!

So I did it! Project 365, a picture a day!

Project 365 – Day 363

Package in the mail! Lovely e-mail from my Aunt Doreen with some pictures I had printed at home that arrive too late for Mum and Hannah to bring with them. Thank you!!

Project 365 – Day 361 (almost at 365!!)

Off the night bus this morning. I took the day off so I had a nice lazy day unpacking, washing, buying food etc. I did get home to a nice postcard from Mum and Dad though!

Project 365 – Day 355

Time to change my computer background to October. Starting to feel colder now too!

Project 365 – Day 334

It’s Thursday so I should be working but today and tomorrow are exam days at school so it was easy to take some annual leave. Plus Monday is a public holiday so that gives me a nice long weekend in Tokyo with Mum and Hannah. I took the bus down to Tokyo this morning (Saving some money! It was about 1/5 the price of the train!) and got into town at lunchtime. I met up with Mum and Hannah and we had a very late lunch before going out to explore the area around our hotel. We found some good shops and bought some things before we stumbled on this exciting place:

Krispy Kreme!! (to be honest I prefer Mister Donut!!)

Then we went up to the observation deck of the Tokyo Metropolitan  Government Building for some lovely night views of Tokyo:

Tokyo

Hannah and Tokyo

Taking a picture of you taking a picture of me taking a picture.

Project 365 – Day 332

Postcard I bough at the school festival drawn by my students

Here's another one I got. No Scotland though!!