Kid Ethnic: 103 Days At Sea: Our Students Have Respect . For Nelly.

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Freshly texted to me by fellow Kumamoto teacher Anika :

I’m now correcting a test in which my students had to write a 5 sentence self-introduction. Miho wrote:

I like reggae. I hope to (go) to Jamaica. I’m sixteen years old. I’m gail. I’m respect to Nelly.

Damnit, that’s what I’m talking about. That’s the kind of cross-cultural confusion I was built on.

And there’s millions more of us on the way.

*Note 1: The girl’s actually being authentic with the spelling here. See Bob Marley’s “Let Him Go (Rude Boy Get Gail)” for precedent. Awesome.

*Note 2: I swear this site’s not going to turn into Japanese-Kids-Say-the-Darndest-Things.com. It’s just that, well, sometimes they do.

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