Saturday, July 10, 2021

Cute German graffito

 On a sticker on a lamppost in a park nearby: Hobbys? Ich bin gern wach. (Hobbies? Well, I like being awake.)

It always makes me smile. Sadly, though, when I asked my young Japanese teenage students what their hobbies were sleeping was usually what they said. That and shopping.

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