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High school after high school is way better than high school during high school. Or, it could just be that my high school Japanese teacher's retirement party was more fun overall than high school was. I was not really expecting the party to be FUN fun especially considering it started at 8:30 am, I was pretty much expecting that I'd run in and drop off a gift then leave. I actually ended up staying for three hours and bearing witness to a 66-year old man do a geisha dance in the "#1 Grandpa" shirt we all signed for him. Just so you can grasp what this is like - Mr. Hesselgrave looks EXACTLY like Professor Oak. Yeah, imagine that. The dance was almost as good as one kid explaining why he'd bought a manual on surviving in space as a retirement gift - I guess his logic was that Mr. Hesselgrave would live long enough to need to live in space, since his entire family is really long-lived - and another kid then shouting "SENSEI FOREVER!" ...And another shouting "SENSEI ETERNAL!"

Yeah, it was beautiful. And our poor teacher almost cried, he was so touched.