English twitter: @kidethnic
KID ETHNIC IS WRITTEN BY:
saleem reshamwla
who is fresh of the boat (that circled the globe).
He makes crazy stuff:
Zombie Rap Videos, Truly Strange Geographic Education Flicks, Micro-Documentaries About Chinese Cell Phone Markets...kidethnic@gmail.com
日本語のtwitter: @masalasoccer
ALSO BY KID ETHNIC:
Twitter
I twitter infrequently. But hope we can stay friends.
The Whiteboard Videos
Music+Whiteboard Markers+Friends=Good ways to spend weekends
SEAWEED BREAKFAST
A collection of stories about Japan written while part of the National Geographic Glimpse Correspondents' Training Program.
The Alpaca Song
I wrote and recorded this for you. Because you <em>need</em> a song about alpacas, don’t you?
100JapaneseThings
A collaborative site to help folks (and each other) find Japanese stuff.
The Annual Kid Ethnic Valentine
Because I love you so much.
As I reached the front of the line, the boys in the booth all smiled.
“Saleem-sensei! Saleem-sensei! Hello! Good morning!” they shouted. School festivals excite them.
“I’ll take one beef bowl,” I said.
“Would you like tea?”
“No thanks.”
“Then that’s 300 yen.”
I paid the money and he handed me my food. He also held out a box of folded papers.
“What’s this?”
He said something else in Japanese that I didn’t understand. I reached into the box and pulled out a piece of paper. I couldn’t read it.
I handed it to him. He read it aloud. The boys all cheered.
A tall, uniformed, student with a huge smile walked out from the back of the booth. He stopped in front of me and leaned forward.
His friends yelled.
“I don’t understand,” I said.
More excited Japanese sounds.
“Sorry, I still don’t understand.”
The leader of the boys put his index finger on his thumb and flicked it forward in the air. Fast, like he was thumping the head of a very bad child.
Huge-smile boy leaned farther forward and pointed to his own head.
I glanced behind me. I hesitated. The people in line were waiting.
I turned back around. I put my index finger on my thumb and held it high in the air. More cheers.
I thumped the kid good and proper, right in the center of the forehead.
Shouts of approval from all behind me.
“Thank you, Sensei,” said the boy. And still he smiled.
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Flight and Battle: Two Secrets Shared | Primates, Kimonos, and the Three Words of Ronald
— Ching 2263 days ago #
You pay a buck, you get three baseballs, and if you hit a target, the platform drops. The teacher is soaked.
I guess it’s not so different, this.
— saleem 2262 days ago #
— Twyford Zahir 2249 days ago #
http://www.wordpress.tokyotimes.org/?p=725
!!!
— Kate 2238 days ago #
— saleem 2237 days ago #