Friday, 2 February 2007

Generation Gap

I was remembering on my train trip to work this morning how funny it was last year in the Christmas parties when the the mothers and kids were taking photos of myself and each other. The company I work for gave each classroom cheap disposable cameras to take photos for our own records as well. Funny thing was, whenever I or someone else used the camera to take a photo, all the kids would gather around and demand to see how the photo turned out on the back of the camera. Some of them were so surprised to hear that not all cameras had digital viewing screens and in fact that cameras like that are a fairly new invention.

It was just such a generational gap kind of moment (and I'm only 26!) when kids assume that there will be such a thing on a camera.

Another similar thing that happened several times was when I would blow my nose in class (politely of course) and the kids would go ballistic saying that I was blowing my nose into a towel! Almost all of them had never seen anyone use a handkerchief before. They had all been brought up on tissues.

Kids nowadays.

Labels: japan, Japanese Social Issues, Teaching English in Japan

posted by Brad at 7:53 PM

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