One Little Letter is All I Need
On Saturday, I went into Japanese school, totally exhausted and hoping we wouldn't have to take finals. I didn't feel prepared because I was so tired. I knew all my stuff and had studied enough... but that "enough" was assuming that I was going to be awake enough for my brain to function. So I kept wishing that I would be the only one in class so we wouldn't have finals or the teacher would forget the test at home. Once I saw that everything was in order, I hoped I would somehow hurt myself so badly while pulling my chair out, I could go home. After I sat down successfully, I gave up. I knew I had to take the test and I was pretty sure that I was absolutely doomed. We had 20 minutes to do some extra studying and boy did I burn through all the pages I had relating to the test. I even made a (crappy tracing of a) map of Japan and stared at it for a while. All of that and I was still pretty sure that the highest score I was going to get was a C. The teacher handed us our tests. My friend and I were the first people to finish. We handed them in and our teacher said we could start break early. I mainly burried my face in my hands until break ended and we had to go in to get our test scores. I took the paper from my teacher veeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeery sloooooooooooooooooooowly, dreading to see my score. My friend saw my score as I took it and her eyes went all wide. I flipped the page over to look at my grade...
I got an A! I GOT AN A!! I GOT AN A!!!
94% baby! Oh yeah! w00t!
Afterwards, my teacher grabbed me and my friend and took us into a classroom and made us do a traditional Japanese dance. In 2 weeks, we'll be doing it for graduation day. I've never felt so white before. I was the youngest girl in the room, but I was the tallest and the least Japanese looking... and I was in the front line. So I'll have to do this in 2 weeks in a kimono and the whole bit. I'm not really sure why my friend and I have to do it because we're not graduating, but whatever. I'll panic for a while, I'll do the performance, my mom will take pictures, we'll post them, you can laugh hysterically. Isn't that the way the world works most days?
I got an A! I GOT AN A!! I GOT AN A!!!
94% baby! Oh yeah! w00t!
Afterwards, my teacher grabbed me and my friend and took us into a classroom and made us do a traditional Japanese dance. In 2 weeks, we'll be doing it for graduation day. I've never felt so white before. I was the youngest girl in the room, but I was the tallest and the least Japanese looking... and I was in the front line. So I'll have to do this in 2 weeks in a kimono and the whole bit. I'm not really sure why my friend and I have to do it because we're not graduating, but whatever. I'll panic for a while, I'll do the performance, my mom will take pictures, we'll post them, you can laugh hysterically. Isn't that the way the world works most days?