Bill Gates

I repeated the same day that I have had since the start of this week: a Japanese lesson in the morning, a huge break, and then teaching at Linden Hall.

During the huge break, I asked Hirata-sensei (our teacher for today) whether she could help James and I book some Kabuki tickets as Kanashima-san is still away moving house.

私たちは歌舞伎へ見に行きたいです。でも、切符を予約することが分かりません。そして、手伝って下さい。
watashitachi wa kabuki e mini ikitai desu. demo, kippu o yoyaku suru koto ga wakarimasen. soshite, tetsudatte kudasai.
We want to go and see Kabuki, but we do not understand how to reserve the tickets. Therefore, could you help us?

She had a look at the website and then phoned the box office. They only had one cheap seat left on Saturday morning, which is the only time that we can both make. However, the lady at the box office was "90% sure" that if we turn up in the morning, 20 minutes before the play starts, they would offer us the second cheapest seats at half price to us since we were students. Therefore, we are going to do that and hope for the best. It will only be marginally more expensive if it works: about £30, though it does last for four long hours of total misunderstanding. It should be a good experience though: the music, the costumes, and the agonisingly slow dances. Felicity went to see it the other day and she cannot see what all the fuss is. The actors train from the age of three, but she reckons that she could do what they did. I shall have to see for myself.

Linden Hall was easy-going, which was good as today was the third time in a row. Before the lesson, Tsuzuki cornered Flick and I in the corridor. He look rather dishevelled, with a towel around his neck and his shirt only half-tucked in. He looked at us smiling for an awkward moment, then turned toward me and grunted "Bill Gates." I just smiled, as I did not know what else to do. Luckily, he smiled back and then walked off to tell other people whom I looked like. Supposedly, "Bill Gates" is also his pet name for Brendan! Obviously, any white-boy with blonde hair and glasses looks like him.