Classes.
I have Japanese for 15 hours a week. Thats 3 hours a day... five days at week. Basically, I have 10 different sessions a week, divided among five different sensei. In addition I get to study from 5 different text books. The basic setup is:
Grammar/Reading 5x
Speaking/Listening 3x
Kanji 2x
The greater part of my week was Japanese class and Japanese class homework. But I suppose that is what I'm here for, so its all good. My other class for this semester is an Intro to International Relations course. I'll discuss this stuff later, but for now, its on to the weekend. I'll also try and snap of picture of the rush hour train I ride to school in the mornings. The number of people on this train is pretty hard to describe without a picture.
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Thursday, I stopped by the archery club to see one of their practices. I hadn't expected it to be such a serious club. Everyone was very quite as they warmed up and really focused for the 2 hours that they practiced (I watched maybe the first 30 minutes and snapped these pictures). It takes about 3 months of training before they'll even let you start shooting with the rest of the club and I felt that if I was to join a club, then I'd need to find something less serious. Nonetheless a picture will follow (take note of the giant bows).
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Saturday
I joined the 'Walking Circle.' We spent 5 hours Saturday walking between two distant train stations.
We divided up into groups of about 10 students and then followed an easy scavenger hunt map around the city. I really enjoyed the club because it moved at a relaxed pace and was composed of mostly Japanese students, and in 5 hours, that is a lot of conversation practice. We stopped at various checkpoints to rest and eat. Some of these pictures are from the checkpoints (I like the one with the little girls swinging their batons).
After a long hard walk. We 'rewarded' ourselves for a hard days work by going to this restaurant that is an eat/drink as much as you want establishment. You pay by the hour and it was relatively cheap. After that, it was on to karaoke. (Which Japanese students are ecstatic about). All this was done before midnight (since there are no trains after midnight) which was all in all very strange. I'll leave you with a few more pictures and cap off the weekend with sunday and monday tomorrow.
6 comments:
Japanese sounds intense, but AS YOU SAID, thats what you're there for. It'll pay off in the end~
~SD
p.s. Don't grow a beard; its not in for our age group
Walking circle sounds like funnnn!
What a coincidence...I went to karaoke Saturday night!
I was surprised at how intense Japanese high school clubs even are. I did "soft tennis" and those girls are real athletes, I was super impressed. They totally shattered my image of Japanese girls as non-athletic and frail and all that. The archery circle reminded me of that.
Good luck with all the Japanese craziness!
i love the dog poop sign. very funny.
what did it say, by the way.
i wish we had cool clubs in p-town.
have fun and study lots.
vinny and pb say meow.
awww, daniel the baton girls, that is so sweet. i enjoy all of the photos. so what is your wake up time during the week. is it crazy early. 15 hours of japanese a week for class....uber intense. keep it up, it will pay off.
love ya.
It looks, sir, like I'll be joining you next semester.
PS: Your mom said uber. I hope you took note XD
Hey Daniel its your cousin Katie. How is japan, you have lost alot of weight. We will miss you at christmas; your mom and brothers are coming if you didnt know. Well we miss you!!!!!!!!!!!
love katie
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