Thursday, September 20, 2012

Best "First Day" Ever!


Please excuse my awful writing; this is an excerpt from an email I sent to my family and decided to post here so it's a little more informal than my previous posts >.< 

Literally the BEST "first day of school" I've ever had! :D Granted, it was the longest day ever (I have class from 9~6:20) lol

Here's a play-by-play of how my first day went:
1. Wake up at 7:25am and eat breakfast in 15min (it's just a small, sunny-side-up egg with a slice of ham and a piece of morning toast so it's not too much to eat). 
2. Run back upstairs to get dressed and put on lots of sunscreen cause the sun is brutal (of course, all of this is done while listening to music so I can dance/sing while getting ready haha). 
3. Walk 5min to the train station and hop on the 8:18am train to Nigawa Station. Last week and part of this week, there was no one really riding the train cause school hadn't started. Today, however, it was packed with college kids! It was kind of cool cause there were TONS of them haha. I felt like I was really going to college today lol. 
4. Arrive at Nigawa at around 8:25 and walk 20min to school; arrive at school at about 8:45. 
5. Search for the classroom/building (omg, that was hard! The one building I was looking for was behind another one and I got all confused >.< lol luckily, there was a nice teacher who showed me the way.)
6. After class, eat a snack and then go to the next one. After that one, eat lunch. After that go to class...as so on and so forth haha. 

My first class is Japanese language (i.e. grammar, kanji, etc) and I have 2 other friends that I've made in the same class, so it's great! Everyone's really nice and pretty good at Japanese (there's only one kind of creepy kid from Germany...). A girl I met from Canada, Abby, is in the same four classes that I have, which is nice; I didn't have to be awkward and search for a spot next to a stranger lol. After that, though, I had one extra class without her so I had to find it on my own...and got lost >.<  I opened the wrong door (ok, I was supposed to find room IS104 and instead opened room 104) and was greeted with a room full of regular Japanese students (there were about 25 kids)...definitely wrong class, right? Japanese people couldn't be THAT interested in Korean culture, right? I asked the girl nearest me, and sure enough, I was in the wrong room xD lol When I turned around, there was a female janitor standing there and she asked me, "Are you looking for the IS rooms?" and I said, "YES! Do you know where it is??" She replied, "Yes, hurry! The bell just rang! You'll be late!" and proceeded to grab me by the arm and run with me to my real classroom. Yes Japanese people are just THAT nice haha. 

I met some new Japanese people today who're in my Korean studies class; yay, new friends! One of them knows lots of people in the Dance Club, so he's gonna introduce me so I can join! :))) 

That's about it for today! I've got only one class tomorrow from 11:10~12:40, and then meeting a friend for lunch! We're gonna discuss plans for Saturday~~! Yay! (^^) All my classes look really fun and interesting (especially Literary Analysis! it's not as serious as I thought; it's more about recent/current generation issues haha). Pretty sure I aced my entrance exam into the Japanese Usage class! Overall, it was such an awesome day! 

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