Friday, February 17, 2012

Valentines in Japan part 2


So Valentine's Day is done and over with, all chocolate eaten and emotions rebounded from being single AGIAIN on that special day. Okay, so it wasn't too bad, especially considering the chocolate I got from students and coworkers. These included some too – beautiful – to – eat chocolate, green tea and strawberry flavored suckers from a female coworker. Apparently she used 100 yen store molds to make these cute confections which seemed like a pro's work. Except everyone thought that the ones with faces were skulls.



Also on the list of goodies were pieces of molded chocolate from a first year, and a mini chocolate cake from a third year. The instructions said to put it in the microwave for 20 seconds, after which it became the deliciously warm lava variety. <3 Sorry, but the other chocolates were devoured before I could take a picture. I saved the cute wrapper though!
 


In class, we made Valentine's Day cards. They kids didn't know at all what to write on them, since they had never seen any V-day cards before. So I brought in some Disney Princesses elementary school cards left over from last year when I handed them out to teachers and taught them the "Roses are red" poem. 


Oh, and it's flu season, so everyone has a permanent mask on their face.

We had many people write "Roses are red, violets are blue. Happy Valentine" and the like. One of the third graders wrote a beautiful poem with each sentence starting with the letters L.O.V.E. It was full of nice and mushy-feel good-ness. Then on the flipside was written "It's all a LIE!!" I laughed for about a minute straight. We threw the cards in a bag and picked one at random at the end of class – These are the ones I ended up with. Can you guess what the picture is on the one on the top?


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