Teaching English in Japan
Posted on April 15, 2005
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Long, long ago I posted a blog entry about one of the funniest “teaching english in Japan” stories I’d ever read. Now there’s another one: My Kids Are Perverted
So anyway, I get asked “bigu dikku” A LOT. Every 2-3 days in fact, which is amazing considering I got asked this question about 2-3 times *in my entire life* in America. Locker room jokes aside. How do you answer that anyway? To a 12-15 year old? I wave them off and say “No no no.” Then they say “Oh, sumaru dikku?” (trans. “Small dick?”) and OF COURSE that’s wrong so I have to correct them. It’s just a no-win stiuation.
On the days I’m avoiding them asking me that, I’m avoiding them actually trying to grab it. I shit you not, I have to play Dodgedick with Japanese Jr. High kids on a weekly basis. Boys and girls! Age, gender, doesn’t matter, they all want a stab at it. The boys are actually more persistant though. I had one boy grab for it, and when I said “No!” he put his hands together and, in English, said “Please!” Oh hell no. I was sitting next to a 12-year old boy who kept grabbing at it, and when I told him “No!” he asked “Why not?” I wondered if there weren’t some cultural bounds I wasn’t understsanding, so I said clearly “age 10 years and become female since birth, then we’ll talk.” His solution was to ask the girl sitting next to him to trade seats, grab my dick, and tell him about it.
What can I say? The Japanese are funny.
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