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Watch the Tan Kid Blush · 10 September 04

I’ve been doing one-on-one conversation tests with some of my beginning students. The format is simple: I ask them four easy questions, then they ask me one question. Which I answer.

The questions were mostly the kind of boring question that you ask when first learning a second language. “What sport do you like?”, “Do you like Japan?”, “Do you like sushi?”, etc.

When a few girls giggled and asked me “Do you have a girlfriend?”, I wasn’t that surprised. Normal curiousity surrounded by nervous laughter, right?

But the last girl I interviewed looked me right in the eye and asked her question with straight-up confidence:

“What do you look for in a lady?”

Back me up, that’s weird, no?

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  1. A little personal anecdote for all y’all that didn’t know Saleem in college. The ladies LOVE this kid. Every girl on campus who knew that I knew Saleem would, without fail, start babbling like an idiot and say things like “Ohmygod I can’t believe you actually KNOW Saleem. Do you, like, hang out? Does he ever ask about me? Isn’t he the best? He’s so great and so cute and, like, the nicest guy ever. Tell him Brandi says hi, okay?”

    So, yeah, being hit on by Japanese highschool girls might be weird if you’re a mere mortal, but if you’re Saleem, it sounds like just another day to me.
    — Jim Ray    2703 days ago    #

  2. Dear readers,

    Jim Ray is a hooligan.

    Be very suspicious of whatever he says.

    Your friend,
    — saleem    2701 days ago    #

  3. I love that girl. Can she teach me to say the same thing in Japanese? Does she have a name yet?
    — Anika    2698 days ago    #

  4. Sadly, she’s at my school where the teachers vetoed my naming-the-kids idea. Oh, well.

    I’ll ask her if she can teach me the Japanese equivalent. And I’ll pass on word if she can.

    Your friend,
    — saleem    2697 days ago    #

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