REAL first day of school!

Minna-sama gokigenyou! Hi everyone!

Even though the post I wrote yesterday carried the title first day of school, my real first day of school was today! I was quite nervous going over there, because it was the first time that I went there by myself and I'd not yet gone there on foot yet so it was a bit of an orientational puzzle. I had to be there relatively early too so I didn't know if I was going to be on time.

Eventually everything turned out well, since I live so close to my school. It's ten minutes on foot from my house to the station, 10 minutes by train and 10 more minutes from the station to school. When I switch families this saturday I'll live even closer to school.

The walk over to my school from the station was quite weird though. I saw all kinds of kids in all kinds of uniforms but noone from my school (although my school has no uniform so sometimes it's quite hard to see who goes to my school and who doesn't (wèèh no uniform, me sad, me likes Japanese uniform!)). When I got there there weren't that many people either. It was like arriving at my Belgian school at 8:10, I only saw about 10 people. I waited for a few minutes inside the building and was joined by Tami-sensei, the teacher responsible for the foreign exchange students (I met her yesterday as well). She introduced me to my tannin sensei (homeroom teacher) and made me do a self-introduction in front of the full staff and my class. After that I had some Japanese language tutoring which was quite alright.

I ate lunch with the girls from my class (the only ones, mind you, there are about 5 of them (and they all wear uniforms because it's cute! :D)). Really friendly people! They told me I looked like Han Solo from Star Wars (Harrison Ford)(I knew there was something fishy about a high school girl asking me if I'd seen Star Wars...). And they too complimented me on the colour of my eyes :P Blueish greyish green rocks :P (They will probably never read this so I can say all of that without any shame :)

In the afternoon I did just about nothing.

The only thing I did was look at the subjects I can choose (SO MANY!). I'm choosing Fine Arts, Calligraphy, Judo, Engineering Basics, Mathematics, Applied Programming, Programming Skills, some other IT subject, 3D computer graphics (I'm reallllly looking forward to that one!), English conversation (I was asked to be a teacher's aide, sounds fun, teaching english to weird Japanese kids who call it Ingurishi :P) and I might take robotic engineering but I heard from the German exchange student that it was only lecture so I might not do that one, because it might be a little bit too hard with my mere basic knowledge of Japanese. Tami-sensei recommended that I take Car Tech, because it's really practically oriented mechanics, like actually working with machines and stuff, but I have no interest whatsoever in learning how to fix cars so...

I'll talk to her about it more tomorrow and I'll let you know when I have my schedule.

I might join some clubs too. I am, by default, a member of the International Club, being exchange student, but I'd like to join the art club or the music club in addition to perhaps the karate club. Tami-sensei told me it wasn't that strict so it might be good. I also heard something about an electricity club but Tami-sensei hadn't heard of it so it might not have any members this year.

I'll keep you posted,

Joren (Night love in Japanese ;P 夜恋　(don't I have a wonderful name? :D I showed the other people from the international club and the girls from my class and they all liked it :D Tami-sensei: "Nanka eroi yo!" = "Kind of perverted, no?". I forgive you, Tami-sensei. :P))