Kid Ethnic: Mixed-Race Adventures in Japan: Telepathic Boy and The Hair Fantastic

Telepathic Boy and The Hair Fantastic · 27 May 05

I teach a child with improbable hair.

You know the the spikey ‘do you see in Japanese cartoons?
The kind that always looks like it’s owner is leaping through the air, even when said hair-owner is relaxing, sipping Pocari Sweat with Pikachu and the boys or whatever?

Such is the hair that this student has. It is as if he’s followed by an eternal wind.

When I see him, I often think to myself, “That which is on your head is fantastic.”

In my last writing class, he called me over to his desk to talk. I encourage kids to do this once they’ve finished their work.

“My hair…” he said.

It was an unusual opening line. I looked at him curiously.

He laughed. And searched through his dictionary.

He found what he was looking for.

He began again. “My hair is…”

I watched him mentally rehearse the pronounciation.

“Your hair is….what?” I asked.

“My hair.” he repeated. “My hair is…”

”...”

“Fantastic.” He smiled big after saying the word. “My hair is fantastic.”

Psychic students. The coolest.

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awesome!
— Victoria 1321 days ago #
Hey Saleemy, we all want to see pictures of fantastic hair, you’ve made us curious…

By the way, this is a bit of a late reply, but I’m taking you up on your offer to link my my ‘Collecting Japanese Salmom Sperm’ story, to my to my flickr account.

Cheers cocker! hope something’s exciting is happening for you!
— Ching 1321 days ago #
Not just awesome…...... wait for it…....... FANTASTIC!!!

So what do ya think kidethnic, a reason to grow the hair back?
— Glen 1320 days ago #
Man, cocker, that story warms my heart like nothing has since The Michael J. Elmerson Story.
— thesketchyreader 1320 days ago #
Pics or STFU! ;-)
— Monty 1320 days ago #
Saleem, can you please explain to me sometime the significance of the word cocker in some of the previous comments? Is this a new nickname?
— Sarah Ferg 1318 days ago #
I’ll see if I get a picture. But such hair may not show up on film. You know, like how vampires don’t reflect in mirrors, and, uh…

[note to self: try to remember where I was going with that one]

Ferg: I’m afraid I don’t know what ‘cocker’ means. Ching’s British, so she sometimes says things other people don’t understand. We still love her though.

I think thesketchyreader is Dan, who’s motives are often inscrutable. Oh, concentric circles of confusion, whilst though ever cease!

Right.

Your friend,
— saleem 1313 days ago #
I must learn the secrets of the hair. I will prepare my mind with 100 days and 100 nights of meditation and deep conditioning in order to understand.
— Kevin 1312 days ago #
i love it when people are psychic.

kid ethnic must me especially attuned, to teach english telepathically.
— Twyford Zahir 1151 days ago #
Cocker as you so rightly commented Saleem, is indeed a british colloquialism.
Just another way of saying buddy or such like.
— Simon 1139 days ago #

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