Team Otsukare

I call these guys Team Otsukare. The are the CC employees who come in after my classes to change the rooms around for the next class. They roll up the carpet, move tables in and out, etc. They also deal with traffic in the parking lots during very busy times. They always walk into the rooms with big cheerful smiles and bellow "Otsukare sama deshta", or some shortened version of that. We smile and make jokes about how exhausting working with kids can be, or how crazy teenagers are. Or they tease me if it's raining outside and I have ridden my bicycle. Now they don't speak much English, and I don't speak much Japanese, but that in no way impedes the comaradarie. They are a hoot, and life would be a lot more boring without them.