[January 2nd: After school: journal entry]

[pokeitwithatwig]

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Why didn't anyone tell me there was school on Saturdays?!

Comments

[bleumystere]

...how can you NOT know that?

[pokeitwithatwig]

My old school didn't have school on Saturday.

[bleumystere]

Are you like...a foreigner or something? Didn't it occur to you to read up on the japanese school system before you transferred or whatever?

[pokeitwithatwig]

I thought it was the same everywhere.

[bleumystere]

Well, welcome to Asia. I hope you're not too crappy with math or you'd be in for a big surprise.

[pokeitwithatwig]

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This sucks!

[bleumystere]

That's school life. Deal with it.

[pokeitwithatwig]

And why does everyone stay in the same class all day? I liked switching classes, like I did at my other high school.

[bleumystere]

I used to have that system at the international school back in Hong Kong, but I prefer this system better. Moving around was too much of a hassle.

[pokeitwithatwig]

But getting up and moving helped clear out my mind between classes. It made it easier to focus. Plus the change of scenery was nice.

Speaking of which, why are classrooms here so bland? The rooms at my old school were all colorful and stuff.

[bleumystere]

Yeah but you have more chance of forgetting misplacing things in other rooms. And if you like change of scenery that much, we do switch classes for home economics, science and PE.

It's a school, not the circus, so of course it'd be bland. What did you expect? Flying elephants and rains of confetti?

[pokeitwithatwig]

That's not the same.

What do you do with projects and stuff?

[bleumystere]

Whatever.

From what I read up, I'm guessing that they'll be displayed on the day of the school festival.

[pokeitwithatwig]

Festival?

[bleumystere]

Yeah. Sort of like...what's that english word...'Exhibition day' or a School fair?

[pokeitwithatwig]

ooh! I know what those are!