It's been a super busy first week! The month started off with all of the international students gathering in the International Center every morning at 8:50! Yuck! And it took the whole week to get through everything for our orientation. The week started off an introduction to the school and its classes and teachers that were available for us to take, as well as a written test to see where each student's level is at in terms of vocabulary, grammar, and writing. It wasn't fun but at least the hard part was out of the way first. The second day focused on the Japanese alphabets of hiragana, katakana, and some kanji. Interestingly enough they explained that we will be separated into a kanji class along with our language class placement. I can't imagine I'll be placed into a high level class, I struggled too much with identifying most of the kanji on the test. On the fourth day our interviews took place. It was a bit nerve wracking but luckily the teachers greeted me with smiles and soft voices. I stubbled a little but that was fine as the test was not for a grade. On Saturday, the International Center prepared a welcome party for everyone. There was food and games and we also were able to meet the Japanese students. When we first arrived to the International Center each student was separated into a group of about 10 or so, making sure we've been evenly mixed between students from each country. Each group circulated between games set up all around the center, such as "fukuwarai". Once lunch time came around we headed to the school's cafeteria and were separated into different groups again, this time though we were matched up with our buddy. Turns out though that my buddy is assigned to another girl from the Czech Republic! It was really fun getting to know Yurika and our other assigned international student, Eva. The day was overall very fun, a little frantic, but nontheless enjoyable. I'm excited to see which classes I will placed in starting tomorrow!
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