Inside every little monkey, is an even littler monkey, trying to get out...

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Had my Chibiko Kids training today - even more bizarre than I'd expected. I reckon that in a few years time, I'm going to conduct a survey of the kids that had Chibi lessons, and assess their attitudes to western customs. I predict their answers as follows (assuming, that is, that they paid attention in the lessons):

• 1. All western countries not only smack the crap out of the food that they are about to eat, but bid it goodbye afterwards.


• 2. There exists, in many parts of the caucasian world, a game called 'Touch the Wall', which involves touching two walls of a room, singing whilst the act is carried out, for no good reason and seemingly at random.


• 3. All activities not requiring speech must have some form of sung accompaniment. Failing that, a CD of mellow piano music which the Sims 2 would be envious of is OK.


• 4. When describing weather in many parts of the world, it is neccessary to accompany the particular weather being experienced with extravagant hand gesturing. In the unlikely event that 'snowing' is the current meteorological state, the 'hands out in front, fingers expanding and contracting in synchronous motion' or 'boob grab' gesture is the most appropriate.


• 5. The most common expression used in western culture is "Are we ready? 1, 2, 3, go!" followed by a pause of anything up to 7 seconds.

Actually, it was a really good laugh, and Katie (another teacher from Nakatsu) and I managed to have a nice wander around Oita afterwards, so all in all, a good day.