choo choo

Japanese has such similar sounds to English that sometimes when I step onto a train where people are talking I swear I'm hearing English words, like I've come into the middle of a conversation. Really, my ears are tricking me -- I can feel them perk up at the sound of what they think is English -- like a dog's hair standing alert. It's weird.

In other news, one of the cutest things I see about once week are these two junior high school boys in their uniforms running to catch the train that I've just gotten off of -- they always have these huge grins on their faces, like they're gleeful to have been doing whatever made them late and it's so fun just trying to make that train. It makes my heart happy and puts a big old grin on MY face.

DAWWWW THAT'S SO CHEESY.