Not Just Ninjas

The other day I was sitting in the teachers’ room, minding my own business, trying to prepare some materials for class. I needed some glue, and I knew I had seen some around. It’s a pale yellow liquid that comes in clear plastic bottles. So I started rooting around in my desk, digging through all the materials left to me by another JET, and I found such a bottle.

I was just about to spread this substance all over my papers, when something made me take a closer look at the bottle. It looked unusually… pretty… for a glue bottle. I noticed the word “nori” for glue was conspicuously absent from the packaging.

I went against all my training as a chemist and smelled the unknown substance. Lo and behold, I just barely saved myself from having to explain why I poured honey all over my schoolwork.

That would have been a tough one…. looses something in the translation.

But honestly, see if YOU can tell them apart.
(those living in or having lived in Japan are exempt)

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