Hi everyone,
On Tuesday the 16 of November Me and my brother attended Tsurumaki (Tsoo-roo-ma-key) Elementary school. We were invited there every Tuesday until the end of their school year. It took us a little under an hour by train to get to the school. We got there just before the bell rang and were literally whisked away by our teachers. I was put in a Yr 5 class. At the school you have to wear special white slippers indoors and our normal shoes outside. They don't have a set uniform which is good. The first thing my class did was read. The teacher gave me two picture books and I tried to read it but I gave up and looked at the pictures. After that they did some stuff and I did Hiragana (Hi-ra-ga-na) which is one of the three different Japanese alphabets. Then the class had English and we played a game were we have to go shopping. After English, Wait... OMG there was just an earthquake as I was writing this. Anyways back to after English they had Recess, but unlike us they don't eat at Recess (Too bad, because I had some recess that we bought at the 7Eleven on the way to school). By the time it got to lunch I was sooooooo hungry. Lunch was Udon (oo-don) Noodles in a spicy-ish broth, a deep-fried potato which I thought before I ate it that it was chicken and the largest piece of apple I've ever seen. We played again after eating lunch. While we were playing one of the teachers spoke to me in English which caught me totally off-guard because everyone had been speaking to me in Japanese all day. When school finished at 3:30pm I was tireder (is that even a word) than I usually am.
That's all for now,
Chloe.
That sounds like a tasty lunch. Do the kids all use chopsticks? I want to get the boys chopsticks but they are a bit uncoordinated still, and would probably stick them in their eye! I've just written chopsticks two (no, three) times and the word looks totally weird now. Chopsticks. Chop sticks. Chops ticks. Now I don't even know if those things you eat with are even called chopsticks, the word looks wrong.
ReplyDeleteHey Chlo! Last night I had the wierdest dream about you and me in Japan learning Spanish/English in Japanese school where the teacher spoke English but was teaching us English like we were Japanese but then Started speaking Spanish........ then we returned our overdue libray books and ate salad for recess...........it was completely random.
ReplyDeleteI am a bit late commenting but trust you will check and get this. I remember your Uncle Brendan saying he was very tired when he first went to Belgium. I think it is because you have to concentrate harder than usual when someone (everyone) is speaking to you in a language other than the one with which you are most familiar. You will blitz the japanese class when you return -- if you get the chance that is!!! Glad you enjoyed it though. I imagine school will be even better next time you go.
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