Here’s the latest installment in my English T-shirts in Japan series. This one is modelled by a ten-year-old boyﾂin one of my English classes. I really don’t know what theﾂmessageﾂis here. Do you? Does anybody?
What were the designers thinking? In fact, what was the mother thinking when she bought this T-shirt? Perhaps this is how [...]
I’ve had a busy evening changing over from the ready-made template on LongCountdown to one of my own custom designs, which you may have seen on my other blog, Nice4Rice. I hope you like the new look. It’s all part of sprucing up the blog for the birth of little Rikuto at the end of [...]
In my first post on English T-Shirts in Japan, you saw the “Honey Spunk” shirt. Here’s another classic, modelled by one of my seven-year-old students. What do you think?
I explained the meaning to the class by kicking myself on the bum with my heel, and yelping “Ouch!”. I think they understood!
The Japanese love to wear clothes with English on them because it supposedly looks cool, yet they often can’t understand what these slogans say. This week I had one student with the expression “No Time to Kill” emblazoned on her shirt, which although perfectly acceptable English, I doubt this housewife is busy enough to warrant [...]
I didn’t come to Japan for the money. No, really! I’d love to say I came to experience the culture, learn the language and teach English, but if truth be told, I came for a girl… but that’s another story.
So, although I wasn’t here for the money at first, it has become a big reason [...]
