Friday, January 05, 2007
Japan! lol finally I'm getting round to writing this post;
sorry ppl, for the long long LONG wait cos of inconveniences regarding the internet and of course,
my laziness.
x)
many apologies to ying, aisyah, everyone who wanted to read this but got tired of waiting for me :X
SO!
on the 6th of dec all of the SG AFSers met at changi airport at abt 8~9 sth, and said goodbye etc etc to all of our family members here before takin the 11.55 flight to Tokyo.
3 weeks of freedom in Japan beckon! HOOOO~
(ehh for your info, AFS was the organisation which planned this whole exchange program trip so we're called AFSers ;P)
the flight there was about 7 and a half hrs on ANA airways,
not to mention MIND-NUMBINGLY boring;
kinda felt nauseous and puked oso.
*in the toilet of course -.-*
overshare i think.
LOL.
so the first few days were just the AFS orientation, to get us used to the Japanese way of life and made tons of ASEAN and international friends on this trip ;D
people like:
adrien and matthias, cool french dudes
Nobo and Ai, my orientation group leaders ;D
Mon and Jing, Thai AFSers
Motoka, Mayu and Mayumi, oso AFS grp leaders ;P
paiseh to everyone, ive been posting this thing so slowly because when everytime i attach a pic, the stupid words get pushed up and spaced out, so its frigging irritating to make it back to normal again which takes up tons of time.
simply put,
BLOGGER SUCKS.
i think i'll post abt my trip in parts, mucho easier to do that.
aannyway, just to fill you guys in on what i did there:
basically after the orientation, i went off to my host family for my homestay for the next 2 wks, attended sch there too :D
during lessons i couldnt understand a THING they were saying, they might as well've been speaking greek for all i care.
LOL.
yepp, so rotted like mad during lessontime cos i dunno wad they were talkin, but at least there was english and chinese lessons so i could understand and talk to thm.
the sch i went to was kinda like a poly, there's no uniform, no hair restrictions, anything you want.
and the teachers and students have like, friend friend relationships.
all this is cos my school is exactly the same as american high school, not the conventional japanese high school that you see everywhere in Japan.
its only 2 years old, for goodness sake (my school i mean)
the Japanese education ministry wanted to try out a really liberal type of school system, a model of american high school so that's why my school is still in its experimental stage.
im kinda sian that i din get to experience the traditional jap high school (which was wad the other SG AFSers got)
instead i got this -.-
but nvm, i still had a really really fun time with the ppl there (;
then everyday for school there's only 4 periods,
2 before lunch and 2 after.
for my school, lessons start at 9 in the morning and end at abt 4 sth.
after every period the bell goes off, then theres 15 mins of free time before the next period starts.
they roam around classes and dun have a fixed class, like JC in other words.
really good system i think, 15 mins is enough to get around classrooms, go toilet, hang around, change for PE class, etc etc.
just not too sure if students can tahan the 90 min period though ;P
1 period= 90 mins.
tts like a movie, man.
and imagine 4 periods of class everyday where you don't even comprehend ANYTHING that the teacher says, for a few days on end.
sibeh sian rite?
LOL.
but at least the people there are realli realli friendly, they say morning to each other everytime they walk past friends and smile a WHOLE lot, not like how ppl in Singapore just dao everyone they see -.-
or its just the usual "uhh." or nod at the people you know.
so impolite pls~
start a new movement!
dun be so dao and not acknowledge friends la, say HI!
;D
hmm and also if you're an exchange student in sch you're uber popular there, everyone wants to talk to you or know you;
kinda like a celebrity.
LOL.
cool feeling though, ;D
just imagine the opposite, if a Japanese foreign exchange student came to bukit batok sec, im sure you'd be pretty darn interested in him/her rite?
same logic ;P
subjects there oso about the same, chem, bio, and science class(physics plus some chem) maths, additional maths, english, japanese classical literature (MOST BORING CLASS EVER) modern society, chinese, and some others.
the level of which they learn is kinda slow in comparison to Singapore, what theyre bein taught we've orredy learnt;
but wad theyre taught spans from about sec 2 knowledge to about O lvl, within 3 years of high school.
lol hope this post's enough to satisfy you guys, more to come soon ;D
real sry for takin so long ya?
._.
hope that everyone liked wad i bought for thm, very sry if it wasn't really very nice or i din get anything for you cos things in Japan are kinda ex ;P
takkaire for now ppl,
cyaas (:
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