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Fujimi High School (1) |
Anno finally gets his wish(?), to visit an all-girl high school. The session took place in the school salon, which students cannot normally enter. Surrounded by high-school girls, Anno actually started to blush. As to what was talked about...Q. This is the first all-girl school that we've visited in the course of this project. What do you all think of all-girl schools?
Takahashi: I didn't like it at first, but...
Muto: Oh, no way. I liked it at first, and it was OK through my first year in junior high. But in my second year I couldn't stand it, and now I'm indifferent.
Suganuma: Girls' schools are more comfortable for me than co-ed schools. Nothing feels strange here.
Q. What about them do you find comfortable?
Muto: I don't have to worry about what people think of me.
Q. Let's see what Anno's impressions are, since he wanted to visit a girls' school.
Anno: I'm shaking all over.
All: (laughter)
Anno: My feelings are being forced down. I'm overwhelmed...
"Anno Is a Man of Few Words"
Muto: I checked the past installments on the website, and it looks like you don't talk very much.
Anno: Well, it's called "Listen!" after all.
Muto: You have hardly any words at all. In the first segment, you talked about your own high school days, right?
Anno: As if I had a choice. Everyone asks the same things, so once I start, it all ends up the same. Up to now, I'd mainly gone for co-ed public feeder schools, only to find that they really have a lot of the same kinds of people there.
Muto: What kinds of people?
Anno: Well, let's see, about 80% good kids, with the other 20% not quite so much.
Muto: And doesn't this seem about the same to you?
Anno: It does.
Q. Do you all get along?
Muto: I guess you could say that.
Shibasaki: We don't have ijime (bullying) or stuff like that.
Takahashi: Is there such a thing as ijime when you get to high school?
Shibasaki: We ignore people we don't like.
Takahashi: But aren't there a lot of people who do things on their own? There's people who eat lunch by themselves.
Muto: When you're alone, who notices? By the time you're a senior, though, you establish yourself as an individual, but up to your junior year, everyone's in groups.
Q. But don't you have problems livening up things like field days, with no boys around?
Muto: They aren't very lively, are they.
"Teacher, I'm Going to the Bathroom"
Takahashi: I need to go to the bathroom. (Takahashi leaves.)
Q. That was different.
Anno: Yeah. Up to now, none of the participants has left to go to the bathroom, or for anything else.
All: (laughter)
Muto: I'd say the rate of bathroom-going during class is really high, though. "Teacher, I'm going to the bathroom!".
Shibasaki: Doesn't seem to happen much in co-ed schools. They probably can't say so in class, I expect.
Murayama: Probably can't blow their noses, either.
All: Say what?
Muto: We blow our noses in class. We keep toilet paper around too.
Shibasaki: They probably can't sleep, either, for fear of looking like they're not awake.
All: Say WHAT?! (laughter)
Muto: Girls' schools don't care about that.
Anno: Does that put you off your guard.
Muto: I think it does, vis-a-vis men.
Q. What do you think will happen when you get to college?
Muto: I think it won't be a problem. Nobody makes a fuss if you look sleepy.
Murayama: It'd probably be like leaving the school grounds. I'd probably still blow my nose.
Muto: I do it all the time in cram school, for example.
(Takahashi returns)
All: Welcome back.
Takahashi: What happened while I was out?
Anno: An interesting discussion.
(From the Aug. 13 edition of Mainichi Intermediate School News)
