whee skype!

oh, I also had meant to mention these things:

1, with the advanced english 3rd years on friday, one of the students was talking about how one of the students in her class 'has the body of a boy but the heart of a girl. his nickname is pink-chan, and he's-' at which point kasuga jumps in and goes 'a gay!' then I had to field another couple of questions about homosexuality in america, which of course I can't really speak about. It's happened one other time with kasuga and I always try and make it known that I don't think it's a big deal and do what I can't to show that I have no problems with homosexuality in the hopes that at least some of the students can see it. it still kinda boggles my mind that on one hand japan can have a very negative view of it in general while a whole genre of manga targeting 14 year old girls is about young boys who become lovers (or at least are over-emotional about each other to the point of it appearing to be romantic)

the other thing is that I finally set my skype options to 'skype me' so random people could talk to me. Just late this last week a chinese man who teaches chinese to english speakers (and vice versa i believe) added me. On friday after work I did a vid chat with him and some of his students and showed them part of my apartment and talked with them. That was really fun and cool. the guy seems nice enough but the deficencies in his english (his english is good, just not flawless) makes me go 'huh?' sometimes at trying to figure out exactly what he's trying to communicate. But it's fun!