Compliments are nice...

Fellow [Japanese] English teacher - "Your coffee cup is appropriate for you. Coca-Cola is American, but this is also Japanese. Like you." WIN.

Later, different English teacher on the new 1st graders compliments me on how much English they know from my elementary school classes. Certainly can't take all the credit for all the kids, surely, but I'll cop to having taught a lot of them a lot of what they know. So, yeah, yay me.