Sea Cucumber Dance

I know you're not supposed to have favorites...but if I could, I would bring my first year students back to the US with me.  No matter how tired I am, I always leave that class with a smile. 

This week we practiced:

- Do you like...?
- Do you play...?
- Do you have...?
- Do you want...?

All forty students get to fill in the blank with whatever they want.  Then they get to interview the three English teachers in the classroom.  I have created a list of best questions asked by my students.  If you ever feel like you're having a bad day, just read these and imagine the brightest, happiest, most curious forty 7th graders asking them in your face!!!

1) Do you like hair!?!?!  (kind of?)
2) Do you want a wig???  (hahah, sure.)
3) Do you have a pig?  (a pig?.. no.)
4) Do you like our school and students?  (dawhhhhhhhhh)
5) Do you have a country?  (right, I own a country...)
6) Do you want a conga?  (YES!)
7) Do you like snail?  (to eat?  oh, you meant just liking them, then sure.)
8) Do you want a Christmas tree?  (I mean, it's summer, but okay!)
9) Do you want a hand?  (and yes, they meant the actual physical hand)
10) Do you want a helicoptor?  (that'd be cool)
11) Do you want a dog?  (YES!!!  Of course!)
12) Do you play the Sea Cucumber Dance?!?  (What?!)
13) Do you like Sea Cucumber???  (What?!)
14) Do you have Sea Cucumber???  (What?!)
15) Do you want a Sea Cucumber?????  (loool.  What?!?!?)

At the end of the class, they always greet good bye to all three teachers. 
"Good bye Mr. Yamasaki, Mr. Malachy, annnd.-  MS. -- CHOOOOOO!!!!!"

Cute.

I really don't know why they scream my name, but I like it.  :)
And yes, my last name in Japan's kanji character is pronounced "Cho".  So students here call me 'Cho Sensei'.  not..."Ms. Journ"   ;)    Sorry for any confusion to my US friends.   :P

Also, I have NO IDEA what the sea cucumber dance is.