Little funny story

I was leaving my elementary school yesterday, feeling dead and disgruntled because – let’s face it – playing Fruits Basket 4 times in a row for over 20 minutes EACH TIME will do that to anyone. So as I was taking off, I saw some of my Junior High students playing in the field with the elementary kids. They ran over to me to say hi and we started a bit of chit chat just as the principal from the Junior High school pulled into the parking lot.

He came over to us, talked with the students in Japanese as I tried to catch a couple of words. From what I understood there was something going on at the cultural center near my house and the two girls participated in something and they were good. He then turned to me, spoke his two words of English, “Good afternoon”, to me and then tried to engage me in conversation. Meaning he looked as though he was about to say something, stopped, looked for his words, stopped again.

Finally he looked at the students and asked them for help in case I didn’t understand what he’d say to me. They nodded and waited for him to speak. So he looks back at me, is about to say something, stops, looking lost, tries again, gestures to the students, obviously trying to tell me that they did something at the Kominkan this weekend…

So one of the girls just waits, and looks at him, and as he turns to look at her, still at loss, she says, very clearly and slowly: “They.”

I laughed the entire way home.