OK I have to post this picture. This is Mizuki for you. She has a wonderful swagger that is very rare in Japanese girls. She likes English, Music, and Phys. Ed and could care less for everything else. When Mizuki tells me this, Yamanshita-sensei, who is her English teacher and speech coach, reacts with visible anguish. "Don't say those things, Mizuki!", she says, "You won't be able to get into high school with that attitude!". And Mizuki laughs; clearly she enjoys tormenting Yamashita-sensei like this ("Sensei, I like that face you make, it's so funny!")... they have something of a mother-daughter relationship...:) All you parents know your kids know best how to bug you where it bugs you.