Well, yesterday was my first day of school here in Japan. I can now sympathize with anyone who has ever been the "new kid". I guess it went okay. It was pretty tough though. My teachers and classmates are all very nice, and I have two teachers that are pretty much assigned to help me out if I ever need anything. They have been really helpful in getting my schedule settled. It was just really hard going to a school for the first time with all girls, in Japanese, and not knowing what was going on... at all.
People would ask how my classes were and to be perfectly honest, they are all pretty much the same to me. I don't know what the teacher is saying anyway. The only one that was different was math. The teacher gave me a worksheet that was in Japanese going over something with circles that we never got to in my Algebra II class. Luckily, the girl in front of me spoke decent English and she helped explain it to me. Like I said, everyone is so nice at school.
Today was my second day and I had to give a speech at the school assembly this morning. It went pretty well. I just read it off of my paper. Everyone clapped when I was done. Today was definatly better than yesterday. My schedule is different everyday, so today I had Japanese History, English, Japanese, and P.E. In Japanese History, my teacher gave me a book about Japan's history that was in english and japanese. That was very nice of her. I spent the morning reading that and actually learning something. P.E. was fun too.
I got my school P.E. uniform and I went to the volleyball class. All the girls were very impressed with my rusty volleyball skills. I haven't actually played for almost 2 years, but they thought I was amazing! When I spiked the ball they were all like "Oh! Sugoii!" (Wow/Amazing!) haha. And then at the water break one of the girls was like you are so skinny and poked my stomach, then yelled something to the other girls and asked me if I did sit-ups. I told them I didn't. It was kind of embarassing, but really funny. When the teacher announced that we were going to play a game of volleyball (rather than just drills) a lot of the girls were like I get Abbey!!!
So, that is school for now. I hope it continues to get better. I also hope that I really start to pick up some Japanese from my classmates.
6 comments:
Abbey is the best!
Yay, Abbey! I'm sure you're going to fit in just fine there. Just continue to be outgoing, talk to everyone, and have fun! Probably most of the girls are intimidated to talk to you because they think you won't understand them, or because their English isn't good enough, so if you say something to them in Japanese, they'll be excited. That's funny about volleyball! :)
Don't slouch..(from Tyler)
Thanks guys! Oh, and now everyone in my class thinks I have a six pack. haha. One of the girls kind of announced it or something. I tried to tell them I didn't....
have fun
Hey abbey, sorry I didn't get to say bye, but good luck in Japan. Everyone misses you already. I'll talk more later. Good luck!!!!
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