School Tripin'

Last week I was invited on the school trip. We went to an exhibition of a famous Japanese artist – Hauksai, who’s work you all will have seen – (that famous scene of the massive waves crashing onto little boats in a tempestuous Japanese sea). We also went to a history museum which was good, but the highlight of the day was the bread making centre.

Calling it bread making was a little grand – we were really just dough shaping – having been provided with balls of ready made dough. We were shown how to make various animal shaped bread, and all the students proceed to produce cats, dogs, hedgehogs and a variety of other creatures. All the students, except one that is - Shogo Yamada. Shogo is the school captain. His English is good and he is academically a sound student as well as being a proficient sportsman. But, he is also a 15 year old boy with raging hormones.

Shogo’s bread creation reflects this. When suspicious staff members questioned Shogo as to the identity of his bread, he claimed it was a microphone. I wasn’t convinced.

Next we made butter. This consisted of shaking a small tub of milk/cream very hard for about ten minutes. Shogo and his posse couldn’t resist the connotations of this action, and proceeded to make the most of it. Watching a bunch of 15 year old boys bopping the butter was too much for me to take and I was reduced to hysterics for a good quarter of an hour afterwards. On the return journey Shogo had a query he wanted to clear up, so he asked me the following question: “have you ever play sex?”

In my eyes Shogo is already a legendary character, and I look forward to seeing what he can come up with next.