I hope I am not stealing a blog entry from Cindy, but since we have the same blogs anyway, it doesn’t really matter (we were talking about this last night).
It has occurred to me that I bet my students think I am really poor and ghetto, because they see me wearing the same thing literally every day. I dress nice for work (nice pants, nice long-sleeved button-down shirt), but no one would know if I went shirtless because I always put my black Columbia Sportswear over it at work. For those of you who don’t know, Japanese schools are so cold that you could probably leave huge slabs of raw meat and cartons of milk in the hallway and they would never go bad (I sense a science experience in the making!). I can see my breath in the hallways as I walk to class (don’t get me started on the even-colder bathrooms). So, yeah, just wearing a long-sleeved shirt doesn’t cut it!
Anyway, the first time I wore my fleece, I got some comments from students who were like “Cool, Columbia!” Now I bet they are probably like, “Honey, you need to get your ass to AEON and buy some new clothes, mmmkay?” because I have literally worn it every day to work since November or December.
I wash the fleece every week, but still…hmm. Thank god for it, tho, because some of my shirts I wear underneath it need to be ironed so badly that even if it is warm, I refuse to take the fleece off because it would be embarrassing. Oh, well, the students would probably wear the same thing every day if they didn’t have uniforms! Or at least I will tell myself that.
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dude, i wear the same sweatshirt everyday too cause it is the only one that keep me warm enough in the damn computer room
so i have taken to wearing whatever beneath it.. t-shirts even! ha! i'll show you "business casual"!
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