(I had dropped in on FHS`s dance club)
"Japanese hot springs are very nice."
And, after discussing the inevitable topic of my ethnic and national heritage, Otsu Sensei informed me,
"We are 100% Japanese."
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| Oftentimes my colleagues will try and chit-chat with me. It`s all very good and I enjoy talking with them. However, many times in their good-natured efforts to kickstart a conversation, they instead bring it to a swift and ironic end. They do this because they tend to start conversations with a benign statement of the obvious that, when said in that enigmatic way that only a non-native speaker of English can, leaves me capable of mustering only stunned silence in reply. | |||||||||||||||||||||
| "Emily, I saw you riding your bike yesterday." | |||||||||||||||||||||
| "Emily, you have a lot of friends." | |||||||||||||||||||||
| "I saw you dancing yesterday." (I had dropped in on FHS`s dance club) |
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| "Emily, you are eating lunch already." | |||||||||||||||||||||
| "Emily, you are emailing...again." | |||||||||||||||||||||
| "Emily, we thought you would be bigger." "Japanese hot springs are very nice." And, after discussing the inevitable topic of my ethnic and national heritage, Otsu Sensei informed me, "We are 100% Japanese." |
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