"How long is your penis?"

Another fun day of classes... it's a shame all these good classes are being wasted with the company not there to record it. I know that my time will come soon since I've been hearing from others in my company that they're being observed.

I'm not worried about it... because I know I do pretty well and the students like me. I do, however, don't want them to catch a bad lesson or a class that is just not feeling it that day. It's so much harder to work off of no responding... but, I'll make it through. If anything... I'll just keep on trucking and make myself laugh to show that at least I'm enjoying the lesson... heh heh.

But, yeah... I'm slowly bonding more and more with students... even more so on a 1-to-1 level. This is pretty good, because then when I ask for their name, it actually sticks to me. Not to say I favor specific students over others (which, really can't be helped though), it's just easier to remember a name of a student when you've actually bonded with them as opposed to students just shouting their name at you in groups of 4+. Japanese names are hard enough as it is... but, when I'm bombarded with a big group of energetic students... it's hard to focus on specific students to learn their names.

Today's student that got some Victor 1-on-1 was a student I recognize by face and know he's pretty cool. It was during recess after lunch and he was playing basketball and told me to join him. I told him the typical 'I HATE basketball and suck tremendously' at it speech... but, he said he too sucks at it. I thought he was just being very Japanese and being all modest and stuff... but, it turns out... he was exactly at my level... heh heh.

So, yeah... that got things going. I was surprised as to how well his English actually is. I guess without people around and just me to potentially 'judge' him... he was very comfortable and was speaking a lot of English. I introduced "Around the World" to him... and though we only played for like 2 minutes... I'll try to remember to play it again during recess.

I hung out with him some more as him as his classmates were taking a break from prepping from their culture festival they're going to have this Sunday and talked/joked around with them.

And, this is where the part you guys are probably waiting for comes in (since I'm sure the title caught your attention).

We were joking around and somehow the subject got around to making fun of each other's... uh... size. That's weird enough as it is... but, not because they do that... since, in America boys do the same. But, it's weird because they do it in the opposite way. Meaning, in America, we'll joke on someone for being small; but, in Japan, they say so-and-so is big... "he's like elephant" (as one student told me)... and that seems to be a bigger insult that saying so-and-so is small? I don't know?

But, with that being the subject and though I didn't really participate in cracking on them like they were cracking on each other... I should've expected the question that randomly came up.

The dude who I had earlier bonded showed me how much English he's actually capable of and asks, "How long is your penis?"

I don't know if it was meant as a joke, or if it was a serious question... all I know is that it completely caught me by surprise and I couldn't help but laugh. All of them laughed as well... which is good because it made for a good excuse to not answer. I mean, how do you even go about answering that to your students?

I laughed for a good minute and just told him in Japanese that "he's evil... but, very funny!" The evil was in reference to him leading the cracking on his friends... and the funny obviously referring to the question.

So, yeah... there you have it... in case you were only reading this to know why I would title a blog like that.

Laterness!