Konnichiwa minna-san! [Hi everyone]
Well, school was today.
School.
ohmygosh.
This will be long since I skipped a day, so bear with me. Yesterday, I'm confused at what really happened. All I know is that I went to City Hall to get registered as a citizen first. At first I thought it was so I can get my bus card, I have to take a bus to school. So now I'm registered. But then we went to the bank. I think I'm getting a ATM card. I was asked to pick out 4 numbers, it would be what I type to retrieve money, so they said. But I'm still so confused. Yesterday was just a bunch of jumble to me. But then for supper I went to a sushi bar!
I was a little afraid at first about it. I mean, raw fish. Gross right? The sushi bar even had one of those spinning things that the sushi rotated in around the bar. It was cool. I regret not having my camera. A plate came with 2 sushis of the same fish. And you pay for each plate you have on your table. Some plates are a different color, meaning that it could have been a drink on that plate, meaning it costs more. The first sushi I tried ended up being my favorite. It was shrimp. Oh, also did I ever say anything about the soy sauce? No, I don't think so. Well, back in America I HATED soy sauce. Here in Japan it tastes simply amazing. I put it on basically everything. I put it on the sushi as well. But oh my god that was amazing. I also tried clams, tuna, salmon, grilled salmon, and a whole bunch of others that I have no idea were. I liked the salmon and tuna, the clams not so much. Out of all the sushi I tried there were only like 4 I didn't care for. One of those 4 was squid. Squid. Ugh, one of the main reasons why I hated it was because it was chewy. It felt like I was chewing on its bones as well. Ewie. Another one I hated was eel. That one just tasted odd >_
I had some kind of milk something pudding [I think it was pudding]. That was good with the whipped cream haha. Oh, and they got me miso soup too but it had 2 fish balls in it. I don't know what those fish balls were made of [they weren't breaded either]. I'm guessing it was a bunch of fish pressed together into a ball. I didn't really care for them but I said they were good anyway. When would I ever have them again anyway? Oh, and there was a tiny dot of wasabi on the sushis and even just that bit burned my nose >_< It was painful for the 3 seconds it lasted haha. When we came home Ai, Tompi, and me played some old school Nintendo 64. I was surprised they had it haha. We played Super Smash Brothers, Mario Party, Mario Tennis, then I watched Ai play Zelda. It was fun.
That was all yesterday.
As for today... well, school.
School... was definitely an experience. I said in my last blog I needed to buy 3 different shoes for school. I'll explain their uses now. One pair of shoes is for when you walk inside the building. You wear these during class as well. Another pair of shoes is for the gymnasium. Whether you have gym in there or you're walking in there for a school assembly, you need to wear them there. The other pair is for gym outside. Oh, and you need to wear a separate pair of shoes when you come to school and leave but you can use whatever kind you want for that. So anyway, I went to school. I was freaking out. My okaa-san says, "ganbatte yo" [do your best] and I groaned. First I had to say hello to the principal, then I had to go to the teachers' room [teachers all go to a room where they have their own desk and that's where they stay unless they have a class. It's not like America where each teacher has their own room and stays there. Teachers in Japan move from room to room to teach]. I spoke English. I wasn't going to bother to think of Japanese haha. I wasn't the only new exchange student today. The other girl is an exchange student from Thailand and her English is reallyyy good. Her name is Pat [nickname. Her real name I can't even pronounce].
Then we were taken to our classroom where we had to introduce ourselves [I spoke English again and so did Pat]. After I was done with my speech I hear a few girls say "kawaii" [cute] whether it was how I said my speech or not :/ I don't know. But that's a really common word here so don't think too much haha. I got my seat, and then we had to clean the room. Oh gosh. We had to move the desks, then sweep with a broom, then get a wet rag and drag it across the floor, and move the desks back. Usually this isn't done in the morning, only after school, but today was some exception my sensei [teacher] said. After that the entire school was instructed to the gym. Before we got into the gym we had to change shoes. I was told I had to give a short introduction to the entire school, me and Pat. Teachers made speeches/announcements first then we were told to go up. On a stage. It was weird. So, I gave my speech in English, then Pat, and we sat back down. Yay. So many people but I would say it's about the size of my grade at Hazelton. Eh, maybe a little less. We have around 800, right? Maybe there was only like 500 in the gym not even... Okay, so I'm wrong, never mind.
1st period begins. Science. The sensei gave us all a paper. Damn, kanji. I gave up right away and doodled. Next class, ENGLISH! Well, the sensei assigned the students to tell me and Pat in English about the school and other stuff then we would tell them about our school life. We never got to finish. Next, LUNCH! My obento [lunch in a bento box] was amazingg. Whatever it was okaa-san made it was great ^_^ That's when I met my first 'maybe' friends. They invited us to eat lunch with them and my class's English is actually quite good. Me happy ^_^ But I spoke Japanese to them when I knew it haha. I can't remember all the girls' names but I remember the one. Her name is Sayaka. I think I only remember it 'cause she told me it twice haha. She took a picture with us and helped us out with going to the next class. It was a computer course, we had to leave the room into building 2. There's 3 buildings. I did nothing in that class except draw lines on Word and color in boxes. The sensei tried to explain but she didn't know English except, "My name is Tachibana-sensei". We weren't allowed to wear any shoes in that room. After that was my last class math. We were given a paper with algebra on until I saw word problems and gave up with the kanji. I didn't even remember how to do some of the algebra. The sensei told me that the students are studying for their exams next week so they're allowed to do anything. Which meant taht in all the classes I took so far, except English and computers, I was able to sleep and so were the other students 'cause those worksheets were just review. Well I had nothing else to do so I just went to sleep. I woke up and one of the girls says, "good morning" to me.
I found it funny how in between classes [we're allowed to walk out in the hall during then] girls from the other classes would stop by our class window and look in to see 'the foreigner'. It was kinda weird but I guess I would do the same haha. This one group of girls waved to me and when I waved back they did one of those screeching-like sounds. Hen desu ne... [strange isn't it]. After school okaa-san picked me up but on our way out she parked by the entrance and then went somewhere. Sayako walked by and waved again and all her friends looked in my direction. I mean sure it's great to be noticed but not by a bunch of eyes at once. I'm not complaining though. At least I know they can't possibly hate me.
To end off this day I went to a character store with Taichiro, Ai, and Tompi. They had a lot of characters from Hello Kitty to Stich [you know that Disney movie]. My host family is really into Disney, by the way. Something I'm not haha. And while I was there I think I found something like sex in a can. They had some weird stuff there as well, such as boob pillows. I wanna get a super cute key chain for my school bag :( When we were ready to leave Ai tried her luck at winning a DS game. And she won! We were all shocked the she started jumping excitedly haha. The game comes with a stylus and in the game you write Japanese and it basically grades you on it. I sucked :/
Then Ai and Taichiro were trying to teach me basically Japanese slang. It was like 11:30 at night they were doing this and I was tired [it's even later right now] and I couldn't comprehend anything and every time I tried to repeat them or try to figure out what Japanese word they were gunna say next I ended up saying something completely different and they just laughed. It was harddd. haha But it was all fun ^_^
Also here's my next video. The videos are from 3 days ago, by the way. And before I forget, I just wanna say that guys use purses here. They're not all stylish like girls' but still nice. Anyway they use them.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RMQQFyu-W10
Well, school was today.
School.
ohmygosh.
This will be long since I skipped a day, so bear with me. Yesterday, I'm confused at what really happened. All I know is that I went to City Hall to get registered as a citizen first. At first I thought it was so I can get my bus card, I have to take a bus to school. So now I'm registered. But then we went to the bank. I think I'm getting a ATM card. I was asked to pick out 4 numbers, it would be what I type to retrieve money, so they said. But I'm still so confused. Yesterday was just a bunch of jumble to me. But then for supper I went to a sushi bar!
I was a little afraid at first about it. I mean, raw fish. Gross right? The sushi bar even had one of those spinning things that the sushi rotated in around the bar. It was cool. I regret not having my camera. A plate came with 2 sushis of the same fish. And you pay for each plate you have on your table. Some plates are a different color, meaning that it could have been a drink on that plate, meaning it costs more. The first sushi I tried ended up being my favorite. It was shrimp. Oh, also did I ever say anything about the soy sauce? No, I don't think so. Well, back in America I HATED soy sauce. Here in Japan it tastes simply amazing. I put it on basically everything. I put it on the sushi as well. But oh my god that was amazing. I also tried clams, tuna, salmon, grilled salmon, and a whole bunch of others that I have no idea were. I liked the salmon and tuna, the clams not so much. Out of all the sushi I tried there were only like 4 I didn't care for. One of those 4 was squid. Squid. Ugh, one of the main reasons why I hated it was because it was chewy. It felt like I was chewing on its bones as well. Ewie. Another one I hated was eel. That one just tasted odd >_
I had some kind of milk something pudding [I think it was pudding]. That was good with the whipped cream haha. Oh, and they got me miso soup too but it had 2 fish balls in it. I don't know what those fish balls were made of [they weren't breaded either]. I'm guessing it was a bunch of fish pressed together into a ball. I didn't really care for them but I said they were good anyway. When would I ever have them again anyway? Oh, and there was a tiny dot of wasabi on the sushis and even just that bit burned my nose >_< It was painful for the 3 seconds it lasted haha. When we came home Ai, Tompi, and me played some old school Nintendo 64. I was surprised they had it haha. We played Super Smash Brothers, Mario Party, Mario Tennis, then I watched Ai play Zelda. It was fun.
That was all yesterday.
As for today... well, school.
School... was definitely an experience. I said in my last blog I needed to buy 3 different shoes for school. I'll explain their uses now. One pair of shoes is for when you walk inside the building. You wear these during class as well. Another pair of shoes is for the gymnasium. Whether you have gym in there or you're walking in there for a school assembly, you need to wear them there. The other pair is for gym outside. Oh, and you need to wear a separate pair of shoes when you come to school and leave but you can use whatever kind you want for that. So anyway, I went to school. I was freaking out. My okaa-san says, "ganbatte yo" [do your best] and I groaned. First I had to say hello to the principal, then I had to go to the teachers' room [teachers all go to a room where they have their own desk and that's where they stay unless they have a class. It's not like America where each teacher has their own room and stays there. Teachers in Japan move from room to room to teach]. I spoke English. I wasn't going to bother to think of Japanese haha. I wasn't the only new exchange student today. The other girl is an exchange student from Thailand and her English is reallyyy good. Her name is Pat [nickname. Her real name I can't even pronounce].
Then we were taken to our classroom where we had to introduce ourselves [I spoke English again and so did Pat]. After I was done with my speech I hear a few girls say "kawaii" [cute] whether it was how I said my speech or not :/ I don't know. But that's a really common word here so don't think too much haha. I got my seat, and then we had to clean the room. Oh gosh. We had to move the desks, then sweep with a broom, then get a wet rag and drag it across the floor, and move the desks back. Usually this isn't done in the morning, only after school, but today was some exception my sensei [teacher] said. After that the entire school was instructed to the gym. Before we got into the gym we had to change shoes. I was told I had to give a short introduction to the entire school, me and Pat. Teachers made speeches/announcements first then we were told to go up. On a stage. It was weird. So, I gave my speech in English, then Pat, and we sat back down. Yay. So many people but I would say it's about the size of my grade at Hazelton. Eh, maybe a little less. We have around 800, right? Maybe there was only like 500 in the gym not even... Okay, so I'm wrong, never mind.
1st period begins. Science. The sensei gave us all a paper. Damn, kanji. I gave up right away and doodled. Next class, ENGLISH! Well, the sensei assigned the students to tell me and Pat in English about the school and other stuff then we would tell them about our school life. We never got to finish. Next, LUNCH! My obento [lunch in a bento box] was amazingg. Whatever it was okaa-san made it was great ^_^ That's when I met my first 'maybe' friends. They invited us to eat lunch with them and my class's English is actually quite good. Me happy ^_^ But I spoke Japanese to them when I knew it haha. I can't remember all the girls' names but I remember the one. Her name is Sayaka. I think I only remember it 'cause she told me it twice haha. She took a picture with us and helped us out with going to the next class. It was a computer course, we had to leave the room into building 2. There's 3 buildings. I did nothing in that class except draw lines on Word and color in boxes. The sensei tried to explain but she didn't know English except, "My name is Tachibana-sensei". We weren't allowed to wear any shoes in that room. After that was my last class math. We were given a paper with algebra on until I saw word problems and gave up with the kanji. I didn't even remember how to do some of the algebra. The sensei told me that the students are studying for their exams next week so they're allowed to do anything. Which meant taht in all the classes I took so far, except English and computers, I was able to sleep and so were the other students 'cause those worksheets were just review. Well I had nothing else to do so I just went to sleep. I woke up and one of the girls says, "good morning" to me.
I found it funny how in between classes [we're allowed to walk out in the hall during then] girls from the other classes would stop by our class window and look in to see 'the foreigner'. It was kinda weird but I guess I would do the same haha. This one group of girls waved to me and when I waved back they did one of those screeching-like sounds. Hen desu ne... [strange isn't it]. After school okaa-san picked me up but on our way out she parked by the entrance and then went somewhere. Sayako walked by and waved again and all her friends looked in my direction. I mean sure it's great to be noticed but not by a bunch of eyes at once. I'm not complaining though. At least I know they can't possibly hate me.
To end off this day I went to a character store with Taichiro, Ai, and Tompi. They had a lot of characters from Hello Kitty to Stich [you know that Disney movie]. My host family is really into Disney, by the way. Something I'm not haha. And while I was there I think I found something like sex in a can. They had some weird stuff there as well, such as boob pillows. I wanna get a super cute key chain for my school bag :( When we were ready to leave Ai tried her luck at winning a DS game. And she won! We were all shocked the she started jumping excitedly haha. The game comes with a stylus and in the game you write Japanese and it basically grades you on it. I sucked :/
Then Ai and Taichiro were trying to teach me basically Japanese slang. It was like 11:30 at night they were doing this and I was tired [it's even later right now] and I couldn't comprehend anything and every time I tried to repeat them or try to figure out what Japanese word they were gunna say next I ended up saying something completely different and they just laughed. It was harddd. haha But it was all fun ^_^
Also here's my next video. The videos are from 3 days ago, by the way. And before I forget, I just wanna say that guys use purses here. They're not all stylish like girls' but still nice. Anyway they use them.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RMQQFyu-W10
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