How's the weather?

Today was my last day at the middle school for this week. Not too bad today. I had 4 classes. Two 1st grade classes and two 3rd grade classes. Next week Tuesday they have their first test coming up so today was a lot of review for the students. Oh, and you ask how's the weather? Yes...today the weather was pretty bad...rainy, cold, wet....cloudy!

But besides how the weather ACTUALLY was today, let me explain the story. In one of the 1st grade classes, we did a Q&A competition where students would stand up row by row. Then us teachers would ask random questions such as "what is your favorite color, what food do you like, how old are you, are you a junior high school student?" and so forth. The first person to raise their hand who is standing gets a chance to answer the question and receive a point for his/her team. So it was my turn to throw out a question and it was "how's the weather today?"

One of the students eagerly raised his hand and looked very confident. So the English teacher and I both thought he was the first student to raise his hand so we gave him the chance to answer the question....da da da!

Well, the student started answering with "I....am....." and I thought, wait...this will not answer the question! Then the student continued to stutter with..."I am......歯ブラシ..."

WHAT?!?! Haha! My English teacher and I started to laugh really hard...I mean really hard! When you translate this, it means, "I am toothbrush!" It doesn't make sense, doesn't answer the question, and doesn't even make sense if you say it or translate it into Japanese! I don't know what the kid was thinking, but it made my day. Good times! Well, I hope these kinds of things only happen in the classroom and not when they are actually trying to communicate with people from English speaking countries. 2 Reasons....I want to hear this entertaining stuff while I'm teaching so that I don't get bored...and number 2. If someone realizes that this student was mine, they would think I'm a horrible English teacher so I don't want that student communicating like that out in the public with others! Haha! Well, let the adventures continue and I will keep updating!