kthxbai desu.
Another year, another hectic graduation--J-school is out for summer!
I'm kind of sad about that... just as the year starts wrapping up, I make a few new friends. Jaymie and Kevin are off to college and Michelle has yet to create an e-mail address. But they're cool... and I'm glad I met them.
Graduation was, as previously stated, hectic. Although, I'm sure it was entertaining for my parents. Every year, the graduating class is required to do a project or two. The other classes do them sometimes, but not always. This year was no exception... but it was slightly more disastrous than previous years. We had finals one week... then we had a break the next week... then we had a pointless day where we basically just hung out, doing nothing. That day, projects were mentioned and ideas were thrown around... but nothing solid. The week after that was the field trip. We took the Metro down to J-Town and went to the Japanese American National Museum (I have a rant about that trip, but I'll save it for later). Then, today, it was graduation. Throughout the week, we were getting emails about what we were doing for the projects and stuff, but didn't get to practice any of the materials until today. Gyaah! And, of course, I also found one of the projects very, very irritating.
The project is all about using the Metro lines. I start off the presentation by telling how the school took the subway to get to J-town because "I think we should stop using cars, since we are in the midst of global warming". I didn't write that. One of the teachers wrote it. I don't care whether my opinion matches up with that or not, I find it slightly offensive that I am being forced state it in a group presentation where we have supposedly compiled all the materials. My dad told me to just treat it like a play... which I ended up sort of doing, I suppose... but I certainly didn't have as much fun doing that as I did doing a play. So yeah. Bah.
But it was also kind of fun... J2 did a presentation on Pokemon and sang the Pokemon theme song, which is now stuck in my head. My class also did a Japanese onomatopoetic expressions presentation (animal sounds and the like), which was... quite... odd. But funny as hell. Also, I had to give back my diploma because of an error in my name. They added a P to my first name. Zopie. Sara now refuses to call me anything else. Also, somehow, one of the teaches got it in her head that I was dating one of the 16 year olds in my class while we were rehearsing. One of my onomatopoetic expressions was わくわく(wakuwaku)/excited or trembling with excitement. I couldn't think of a sentence to do to demonstrate how the expression would be used and the teacher suggested that I explain how excited I would be when I was going on a date with my boyfriend. Jaymie was quite entertained. I have no idea what gave the teacher that idea. We've probably said two words to each other in the past two years, haha. Whatever. Oh... and we were trying to figure out a sentence to do for ぴかぴか(pikapika)/shiny or new, and a few of us immediately jumped on saying something about Pikachu. My teacher responded with something along the lines of, "Pikachu is bald??" I still have no idea what she was talking about. But it was funny. And Jaymie and I don't understand why Pikachu's baldness wasn't mentioned in the description of him during the Pokemon presentation.
It was a good year and I'm looking forward to next year. =]
I'm kind of sad about that... just as the year starts wrapping up, I make a few new friends. Jaymie and Kevin are off to college and Michelle has yet to create an e-mail address. But they're cool... and I'm glad I met them.
Graduation was, as previously stated, hectic. Although, I'm sure it was entertaining for my parents. Every year, the graduating class is required to do a project or two. The other classes do them sometimes, but not always. This year was no exception... but it was slightly more disastrous than previous years. We had finals one week... then we had a break the next week... then we had a pointless day where we basically just hung out, doing nothing. That day, projects were mentioned and ideas were thrown around... but nothing solid. The week after that was the field trip. We took the Metro down to J-Town and went to the Japanese American National Museum (I have a rant about that trip, but I'll save it for later). Then, today, it was graduation. Throughout the week, we were getting emails about what we were doing for the projects and stuff, but didn't get to practice any of the materials until today. Gyaah! And, of course, I also found one of the projects very, very irritating.
The project is all about using the Metro lines. I start off the presentation by telling how the school took the subway to get to J-town because "I think we should stop using cars, since we are in the midst of global warming". I didn't write that. One of the teachers wrote it. I don't care whether my opinion matches up with that or not, I find it slightly offensive that I am being forced state it in a group presentation where we have supposedly compiled all the materials. My dad told me to just treat it like a play... which I ended up sort of doing, I suppose... but I certainly didn't have as much fun doing that as I did doing a play. So yeah. Bah.
But it was also kind of fun... J2 did a presentation on Pokemon and sang the Pokemon theme song, which is now stuck in my head. My class also did a Japanese onomatopoetic expressions presentation (animal sounds and the like), which was... quite... odd. But funny as hell. Also, I had to give back my diploma because of an error in my name. They added a P to my first name. Zopie. Sara now refuses to call me anything else. Also, somehow, one of the teaches got it in her head that I was dating one of the 16 year olds in my class while we were rehearsing. One of my onomatopoetic expressions was わくわく(wakuwaku)/excited or trembling with excitement. I couldn't think of a sentence to do to demonstrate how the expression would be used and the teacher suggested that I explain how excited I would be when I was going on a date with my boyfriend. Jaymie was quite entertained. I have no idea what gave the teacher that idea. We've probably said two words to each other in the past two years, haha. Whatever. Oh... and we were trying to figure out a sentence to do for ぴかぴか(pikapika)/shiny or new, and a few of us immediately jumped on saying something about Pikachu. My teacher responded with something along the lines of, "Pikachu is bald??" I still have no idea what she was talking about. But it was funny. And Jaymie and I don't understand why Pikachu's baldness wasn't mentioned in the description of him during the Pokemon presentation.
It was a good year and I'm looking forward to next year. =]