"kimoii" which is slang for "gross!". It's actually "kimochi warui" 気持ち悪い which literally means "feeling bad/gross", but then people (teens usually) just take the first two syllables and the last and shorten the phrase to make it easier to yell.
To be honest, I don't really use it that much because, for some reason, it really seems (and sounds) to me like a word only high school girls use. Maybe that's because I spent a year in a high school and those were the people that used it. It also lends it self to high pitched, dragged out versions of "kimoi~~~~"...
Now, this (sort of) connects to this week's topic in that at Science World, one of the workshops I taught was called "Grossology". As you can see, I finally secured some pictures of me leading the workshops and while it may seem a bit "lecture"-esque, the workshops really do use a lot of very simple, very cheap props to help the students along the way. Here we're talking about the digestive system and in a few moments, the TV beside me will show clips of a real, live endoscopy. It's great fun listening to the kids' reactions as they watch the camera slide down a person's throat and into the stomach.
The best part of all this is that by using real items as examples, the learning becomes that bit more experiential and that make it all the more useful. They may not remember all the names of all the body parts, but if they even remember that I had put water into the "corn syrup blood" to make it thinner and easier to pump, then that's learning in itself.
I'm actually in the middle of a PSWK Summer Karate Camp and I try to make sure that I don't overload the students with "explaining" and instead have them "doing". And it seems to work because they're all having a great time, they feel like they're getting "more" out of it, and I still have chances to tweak them as they're going along.
Nothing gross about that... =P
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