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Dec. 15th, 2010 06:46 pmToday was the last day of Wednesday class until February. We hied ourselves to the Botanic Gardens and had a picnic. I got to meet a bunch of the regular staff from the other offices. It was very funny. So many of them were Canadian! To most of them I was "the Creative Writing tutor" but one of them turned out to be the ex-wife of someone I knew. We had a nice chat.
My main contribution was to give everyone ten yen pieces and to tell them they had to buy their entertainment. Writers bought stories from each other and non-writers bought stories from writers. The stories were written on the spot, with textas and on the most lurid paper I had been able to obtain. One of my students made many yen, but another bought so many stories that he had to do extra renditions of his own to stay afloat.
In the middle of all this, other students were singing Christmas carols. They kept forgetting the words, and I somehow became the Christmas Carol Consultant. At one stage I was dictating to a student (so that they had the words) and explaining the meaning all at the same time. I kept footnoting my explanations with "You do know I'm Jewish" and they kept laughing at me.
My main contribution was to give everyone ten yen pieces and to tell them they had to buy their entertainment. Writers bought stories from each other and non-writers bought stories from writers. The stories were written on the spot, with textas and on the most lurid paper I had been able to obtain. One of my students made many yen, but another bought so many stories that he had to do extra renditions of his own to stay afloat.
In the middle of all this, other students were singing Christmas carols. They kept forgetting the words, and I somehow became the Christmas Carol Consultant. At one stage I was dictating to a student (so that they had the words) and explaining the meaning all at the same time. I kept footnoting my explanations with "You do know I'm Jewish" and they kept laughing at me.