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Moonwalking in Arakawa
I forgot to mention it, but on Friday night at Chiba's game, they were playing Michael Jackson music outside the stadium and between all of their inning breaks where they would usually play other stuff.
Then this morning in 3-23 class, two of my students were trying to do a moonwalk. (They had already finished the activity for the day and people were basically "studying", which is shorthand for "goofing off")
The third boy sitting over on that side of the room asks me, "Teacher, do you know Yankovic?"
It took me a minute to realize what he was saying since the pronunciation sounded like "young Koby", but once I realized what he was talking about I said yeah, I know Weird Al Yankovic's music and like it. He said it's really funny and that he saw Yankovic's imitation of Michael Jackson, and he wanted to tell the other students about it, except they didn't really care. And I'm like "Wait a minute, why do YOU know Weird Al? His stuff is all in English, can you understand it?" Apparently his parents like Weird Al or something -- I think his mom's an English teacher so that makes more sense. But I asked if Weird Al is popular in Japan at all and he was like "not really, I don't think people can understand his comedy."
Weird day.
I ate some fish sembei that the 2nd-years brought back from Shimoda as omiyage -- hope I don't get sick. Sigh.
Then this morning in 3-23 class, two of my students were trying to do a moonwalk. (They had already finished the activity for the day and people were basically "studying", which is shorthand for "goofing off")
The third boy sitting over on that side of the room asks me, "Teacher, do you know Yankovic?"
It took me a minute to realize what he was saying since the pronunciation sounded like "young Koby", but once I realized what he was talking about I said yeah, I know Weird Al Yankovic's music and like it. He said it's really funny and that he saw Yankovic's imitation of Michael Jackson, and he wanted to tell the other students about it, except they didn't really care. And I'm like "Wait a minute, why do YOU know Weird Al? His stuff is all in English, can you understand it?" Apparently his parents like Weird Al or something -- I think his mom's an English teacher so that makes more sense. But I asked if Weird Al is popular in Japan at all and he was like "not really, I don't think people can understand his comedy."
Weird day.
I ate some fish sembei that the 2nd-years brought back from Shimoda as omiyage -- hope I don't get sick. Sigh.
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Did you tell him you've met Al in person? :)
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