Learning to Bow at Kabe Senior High School
March 14th 2007 Learning to Bow at Kabe Senior High School
“kiritsu”
“ley”
“onegaishimasu”
These are the 3 words I hear before I start every class. I remember my first class - standing in front of 20 first-year Japanese high school students clad in blue uniform - absolutely petrified. The translation (which I learned very quickly) is “stand up” “bow” “Let’s begin class.” I stood
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