PA Death

oh man, I feel like such an idiot...

Today is the opening ceremony for the junior high. Everyone is afraid of swine flu, so we did not have a general assembly. Instead, speeches were to be given over the PA. I was given some notice that I would have to give a short speech.

No one gave me any help as to what I was supposed to say in this speech... but I metally prepared some pretty general 'looking forward to the year' type comments... mmf.

WELL. I was (understandably!) quite nervous... and after I gave my short intro in Japanese... I only managed a couple sentences before... forgotting everything I'd memorized in English! There was this long pause.... and I finally just blurted out something, I don't even remember. Gods. So bad. One of the English teachers then translated it for me, so hopefully she made me sound less retarded.

The principle was standing there, ever a jovial sort of man, and he smiled, but even he could only say it was 'a little okay'. Not even 'okay' but a 'little okay'.

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I'm going to go be mortified over here now (under this rock).
See you.