michael lambe

I just had one of those Wednesdays that make me feel like this:

Every Wednesday I teach 4 classes at Kyoto Girls. Most classes are fine. But one class is just 50 minutes of pure spite. Every week. Every Wednesday. So, I went and talked to their homeroom teacher today and he said he would have words. Whether that will change things I have no idea but I think I know who was puncturing my bicycle last term…
Anyway, enough of that. Here are some more pictures from last Friday at Toru Yagi’s place. The adults in the picture are Toru and his wife Riyo. They aren’t all Toru’s children though. They are just kids from the neighborhood. Toru lives out in Shiga (quite close to lake Biwa) and they don’t see a lot of white folks out there (we are two a penny in Kyoto) so the kids were all excited…. but shy at the same time. It was kind of funny the way they kept trying to get each other to say something to me and then running away again. Now you may have noticed that all the local kids are GIRLS. Toru has this theory that the electromagnetic waves coming from people’s mobile phones are somehow repressing that vital male X-gene. But I have no idea about that. This next picture features the inimitable Hyon Ju.

Here’s dinner: a tasty nabe (”hot pot” - see here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agemono_nabe)

And after dinner, a game cleverly constructed by Riyo, Nodoka and Honoka from cans and pebbles… And I got well beaten by a seven year old…