OoOooO! Bikkurishita!

[RoxFontaine]

:bored:

Oh, let it go already!

I've been here for quite a while now. You know what days I'm coming. Even if you've managed to forget, you've seen me in the building several times today.

You DO NOT need to belt out, "Ooooo! Bikkurishita!" EVERYTIME I turn the damn corner. You're not "surprised". You're STUPID!

:bang:

[Xenotrauma]

I have to admit though... we have -one- exchange student who's been at my school for like a year, and he still says that about every little thing. XD I know it must be annoying to be in Japan and hear it, but it's hilarious to invite this guy to eat sushi, or say "konnichiwa!" to him on the sidewalk and have him stop, eyes get huge, hands to cheeks and start saying "OO! Bikkurishita! OO!" then look like he's going to -die- of shock.

He's a riot at parties tho :D

[JusenkyoGuide]

Ah, but they do it all the time. Not just to me, to my JTEs and other students. I think it's part of the "Must act cute at all costs" bit of Japanese culture.

[kitsunepixie]

I got the fright of my life when I was studying abroad in Tokyo.

The class was Education in Japan, and was held in this really dark, creepy, old building. Usually my Chinese friends would arrive early before the class, but this one day I arrived first so I got the idea that I would hide in the gloomy corridor, wait for them to come, then jump out and surprise them. Well, I waited, and when I heard footsteps, I jumped out and...SCREAMED. Not because I was trying to scare them at that point, but because it wasn't my friends, it was my professor (a really big, clumsy-sort of Japanese guy who was always covered in chalk) who had arrived early!! :duh: I scared him so badly that he fell on his ass yelling, and he scared me so that my scream became one of earnest. Luckily, he laughed about it (really, really hard, actually), and it became one of the funniest things that ever happened to me. I promptly became the teacher's pet after that, though I was surprised to find that after the fact that this professor had a reputation for being really strict to his Japanese students.

[羽之助]

Most students say うわあ、びっくりした！because I AM waiting around the corner for them to come. Or in a dark room waiting for them to walk by the door. Or bursting through a fire door when they are on the other side of the wall.

I have to figure out a way to hang upside down from the ceiling.

[JusenkyoGuide]

Most students say うわあ、びっくりした！because I AM waiting around the corner for them to come. Or in a dark room waiting for them to walk by the door. Or bursting through a fire door when they are on the other side of the wall.

I have to figure out a way to hang upside down from the ceiling.
I don't have to hang from the ceiling. For some reason, even though I am twice as tall as they are, and at least 2.5 times heavier, my kids seem to just not see or hear me.

So my fav trick is to find a group of them huddled around something then go stick my head in an ask "What'cha all looking at?"

Maybe I'm just starved for entertainment.

[羽之助]

Maybe I'm just starved for entertainment.

But it's just so EASY with them.