phone tag

So, today we were doing a lesson practicing phone calls. I go to the English Staff room and wait for the students to call me and do the dialogue. Well, the students have to be careful that they get the number right, otherwise they'll call the wrong room. Well, a student did just that, and ended up calling the Language Lab next door with kasuga in it. Kasuga picked up the phone and greeted by a

'hello, this is mika!'
kasuga: uh, hi mika?
mika: are you free monday? we're planning a soccer game!
kasuga: uh, im' sorry? I have work monday.
mika: ok bye!

in the span of like 10 seconds. I'm not really sure why mika never realized that the voice didn't sound like me, or that the japanese she heard was no doubt natural sounding, or what. Kawaii sensei and I had good laughs over that.

Also, it's really popular for girls here to wear Playboy bunny emblazoned everythings. Socks and sweaters are the most popular. Its just completely stripped (HAH!) of it's sexuality here and the girls like it becuase of the cute rabbit. It's so tempting to bring the illusion crashing down around everyone. or just tell my students to go to google and seach 'playboy' bwahah. Im a terrible teacher.

i've also been working with one of my teachers on getting meanings for japanese names. it's great fun because she gets to practice her english and trying to describe the meanings of names is tons of fun. whee!