Profiscor on the Your-Japan Blog Network

Recently the old morbidity of lab has been thwarted by some lively and interesting new students.

The new acacemic year brought us Maiko, Miki, Bubs and Jimmy. Not their real names but I think they sound good together. Plus I’d like to preserve their anonimity.

Maiko and Bubs I’ve met before since they came with us on a field trip and have been around but Miki and Jimmy are completely new to the university, and both commute form pretty far away.

Miki is probably the most normal. She’s always smiling and always happy to help, she even came up to me and introduced herself when she first met me.

Maiko is the other girl who joined this year, She’s quite normal too, compared to Aki, my student helper who can be a bit emotionless sometimes. She always an effort to talk to me, and it’s not always small talk either so for that she’s in my good books.

Next up, Bubs. Bubs is awesome. Ok so he may be a little bit on the large side but he’s always smiling and always makes an effort to speak in English to me, which I will always respect. He even tries to include me in things and often tells me things that he doesn’t think I’ll know, just incase for some reason I don’t. …Like I said. Bubs is AWESOME.

Last but not least, Jimmy.

Just after the new people started, my professor informed me of one of the students being interested in improving his converational English, which you often get at the university, people find out you’re American or British and want to practise their English with you in the hope you’ll correct them and they’ll get better.

My professor told me that Jimmy had asked if he could attend the English Cafe on campus, but he had told Jimmy that he could just speak to me. So like Bubs, Jimmy has been speaking only English to me, but unlike Bubs, who’ll say something in passing, or to inform me of something or another. Jimmy will take out his electonic dictionary and come sit next to me and blurt our lines such as.

“I LIKE ENGLISH”

“DO YOU LIKE…JAPAN?”

“WHAT ARE YOUR INTERESTS???”

“WHAT MUSIC DO YOU LIKE”

I really wish I hadn’t told him the answer to the last one because he threw a million band names at me and started singing a few of his favourite songs…Infront of everyone.

I guess people don’t notice or don’t care, or pretend not to care because they didn’t bat an eyelid… I on the other hand had to act gracious …Fun times.

Sure, A girl likes to be serenaded but I’d like to meet the girl who likes being serenaded by Oasis songs sung in a Japanese accent while she does a Western Blot Experiment…

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