fireflies and other light-producing stuff

more lights and stuff
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Yesterday was interesting. After a pretty bad night's sleep, I got into work to be confronted by the.loudest.child.ever. Wow. Her laugh was roughly 30% Foghorn, 25% Nails-on-a-chalkboard, 24% throwing-a- bowling-ball- onto-a-pile-of- empty-bottles, 12% it-wasn't-even-funny and 8% how-can-you-not-have- taken-a-breath-yet-you-mental. Go figure. But, my crowning achievement at work was, after a full 20 minutes, getting a 3-year-old girl to say, unprompted 'It's an Airplane'. I don't really like teaching this; partly because it's aeroplane, but that's what's on the card, and partly because other than general language exposure I can't see when the poor kid will next see an aeroplane. That, and the fact that she left the lesson pointing at random stuff and saying matter-of-factly 'It's an airplane'. Job done then...

We did get to see lots of fireflies in the evening, though; Kristen and Cory took us with them to Yabakei, which is a little village up near the mountains, and we went up a little track until we saw some place to sit. Fireflies are cool. It's hard to imagine anyone who wouldn't like fireflies, especially ones that are floating round your head. However, a significant growl from the nearby forest and our hunger for food sent us packing after about an hour, back home to watch England play, and to listen to the Japanese commentators try to say Peter Crouch's name without us all laughing. "Kurouchi, Kurouchi, Bekkam des, Oh-en des". It'll never get old, that one...