Silliness

The other teachers and I like to play with kids a lot. At lunch, I often fold up someone’s napkin and stuff it in their pencil cases. By now, a lot of the kids are used to it, and they either laugh or do the Japanese equivalent of rolling their eyes and sighing. My coworker, too, once was told by a 10-year old, “sensei, you act like you’re younger than me!”