So today's the Lunar New Year here in Japan. This day is called "Setsubun." Today in class we got to take a little break from the usual grind to learn about Setsubun.
Apparently everyone has an 'inner demon' or some kind of personal issue and you uh slay that demon by throwing soybeans at demons... or someone dressed like one. ITS SUPER SERIOUS. Also you eat one soybean for every year of your age plus one for the coming year.
Today I was roughly 154 years old.
You're supposed to yell, "Oni wa soto, fuku wa uchi!" which basically means "the demon is outside and good... good luck, GOOD SOMETHING is inside (your house)." So the teacher had us yell that and then two guys dressed up like demons attacked our classroom where we retaliated with, you guessed it, soybeans.
After we beat the tar out of them with soybeans they came back inside the classroom and our teacher briefly went over terminology such as 'horns' and we were all quietly listening... until suddenly one of the Korean girls started "ONI WA SOTO, FUKU WA UCHI"-ing again and started hucking soybeans so naturally we had to all join in again.
The other night I saw my friend Ayako for the first time in about three years! She was an AU student when I was a freshmen at CWU. And since Kentarou is a mutual friend (they know each other through hip hop dance stuff they do at AU) he joined us too. It was awesomeeeee. I'm supposed to see some more familiar faces this weekend, so I'm pretty stoked.
NOT SO STOKED ABOUT 9 AM LECTURE ON SATURDAY MORNING.
Blargh.
Tonight is the first night I haven't had homework since classes started! ... But I do have a test tomorrow! That makes three tests this week. Japanese teaching pace is awesome.
And so is bean throwing day.
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