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Valentine’s Day was fun this year. In Japan, girls give boys presents. My star BW pupil (I think she’s eight years old) gave me a great box of chocolates after class. All the staff laughed at us.

One of the other mothers must have thought it was a good idea, because after a later class another student from the BW class was waiting for me. She’s younger, and very shy. After some encouragement from the staff she held out a box of chocolates at arms length. When I took it she ran off and hid her face. So cute! She refused to say “Happy Valentine’s Day,” despite encouragement from the staff and her mother.

I must say it was pretty embarrassing for me, too. I don’t like that I like to support such a blatantly commercial day.