There ‘n Back Again: **** Toner
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There ‘n Back Again shares the cultural re-adjustment reflections of Brendan Share (Niigata-shi 2006-07), the program director for Japan America Learning Centerhttp://www.japanamericacenter.com. in Scarsdale, NY. In addition to writing, Brendan also enjoys depicting idioms in cartoon format which can be seen at
So I’m at work this morning flipping through heaps of student lesson plans when a shrieking cat masquerading as my colleague’s voice leaps at me from the front office. After pulling out my trusty Japanese to English dictionary I was able to paste together an interesting semblance of terms, the majority of which were not that flowery in retrospect. It panned out as follows:
“Who forgot to order **** toner for the **** copy machine??!!”
しまった。。
Seriously, she’s sweet, but the cursing…
Anyway, toner tends to fall by the wayside when the task of getting 45 kids to pass the STEP Eiken test in June looms overhead. Even still I blinked and found myself cast back into the shadowy halls of Maki Nishi Junior High School. I started to get the feeling that I had not learned some valuable lesson…
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