Today in Hong Kong I spent the afternoon in Japan. A very popular thing to do here is to take photos in a kiosk and then add stars, hearts, happy faces, flowers, etc. so the photos come out with these decorations. The machines are all in Japanese so we had no idea what we were doing (although we did this last year for my birthday too) so the first batch were terrible. You have to decide which background you want (I chose some scary thing with ghostly hands everywhere- I thought it was happy hands!), then do some funny poses (hand gestures and the like), pose for really fast sequence of pictures, then choose 4 of the 6 poses, then you have 3 minutes to decorate. It is really very taxing.
Then you gave to decide who gets which picture, cut them up, and then get them laminated! Voilà a special little plastic card of you and your students looking stupid!!
While waiting my students to get theirs cut and laminated, I am watching a Japanese music video where cute girls keep tripping and spilling food in slow motion on heavyset guys laying on the beach. Weird! First it's an ice-cream cone, then an icee, then ramen, spaghetti, soup, and pork chop rice!! I don’t get it.
No comments:
Post a Comment