like a schoolboy

school has begun. and it is just as everyone has been telling me: all the students here (95% women) gawk and giggle, then ask if you can teach them english. never has it been easier to get girls' phone numbers (even after telling them i've been with my girlfriend for 2 years), yet so bloody difficult to find my own number in my new keitai (cell phone). i call my host brother, masato, my keitai sensei - cell phone teacher. on these bloody phones you can watch tv (and there's a tv guide available), email (texting doesn't exist - it's all considered email), chat msn style, listen to the radio, scan bar codes which tell you the company's web site, and my phone even has a built in magnetic thingy that works as a credit card, charging to my phone bill. unreal. not to mention most of the menus are in japanese, even on my bilingual phone.
walking into the cafeteria for the first time i felt like i was the star attraction of a freak show. the room didn't quite go quiet, in fact i'm certain it got that much louder. teeny-bop giggles will do that.
our first class went well - modern japanese society. we'll be studying post war modernization, which means we'll be reading '60s manga and watching movies, analyzing for cultural and technological developments. my kind of class.
i also found out today that the 3 of us have to prepare a halloween party. the japanese don't celebrate halloween, so it's all up to us. i guess this also means that we can create whatever bizarre "traditions" we want.....
other than that it's business as usual, as usual as you can call a class with only 3 of us in it. no less than 4 different japanese classes, history, and society. bring it on.