School

Okay, I think its time for an update!

First of I all I don`t wanna make up any excuses for not updating my blog, I`ve just been too lazy tbh.

Today is Thursday and that means only one more day till the weekend. And actually it`s not just the weekend but a whole week of holiday (for my case anyway) as we have got tests at the school. However I`ve only got 1 test (Information A - computer) so I`m only going to school on thursday next week which is awesome.

Okay, I think it`s time for me to show you my school schedule which is the best schedule I`ve ever had (probably because I chose every single subject myself!).


Okay, jeg tror det er tid til en opdatering.!

Foerst og fremmest vil jeg ikke finde paa nogen undskyldning for ikke at have opdateret min hjemmeside. Jeg har bare vaeret for doven.

I dag er det torsdag, og det betyder kun 1 dag til weekenden. Og fatkisk er det ikke bare weekend, men en hel uges ferie (i mit tilfaelde i hvert fald) da vi har proever paa skolen, og siden jeg kun har en proeve (Information A - computer), saa skal jeg kun afsted om torsdagen i naeste uge, hvilket er herligt.

Naar, jeg tror det er ved at vaere tid til, at jeg fortaeller lidt om mit skoleskema, hvilket er det bedste skema jeg nogensinde har haft (nok fordi jeg selv har valgt hvert eneste fag!).





As you can see there are many creative and interactive subjects such as Piano, singing, orchestra, volleyball, Iai, Kyudo etc.
Also you might notice that I have Japanese lessons every single day, whihc is awesome. The reason for this (that it is awesome) is not just that I love Japanese, but also because they are not lessons in the way you would normally think of a language lessons. The teachers are not school teachers but voulenteer (did I spell that right?) school students who though it could be fun to teach a foreign dude/gal Japanese. Of course we have a text book which we follow (it would be too much to ask of them to make up 90 min. of Japanese lessons every week), so we always have something to do. We usually have loads of fun and after all I think people on your own age are waaay better teachers than adults.
When we run through the examples in the text book they almost always say `Geez, that sounds so unnatural` or `Only my grandpa would say that`, so in that way I learn to speak like the Japanese youth - which is great.

Som I kan se er der mange kreative og interaktive fag som f.eks. klaver, sang, orkester, volleyball, Iai, Kyudo etc.
Noget andet som I maaske har lagt maerke til er, at jeg har japansk hver eneste dag, hvilket er herligt. Grunden til det (at det er herligt) er ikke bare, at jeg elsker japansk, men ogsaa fordi det ikke er almindelig undervisning. Laererne er nemlig ikke skolelaerere, men frivillige skolelever, som taenkte, det kunn vaeret sjovt at laere en fremmed japansk. Selvfoelgelig har vi en tekstbog, som vi foelger (det ville vaere for meget at forlange af dem at skulle forberede 90 min. japanskundervisning hver uge), saa vi har altid noget at lave. Normalt har vi det enormt sjovt, og naar alt kommer til alt tror jeg, folk paa ens egen alder er langt bedre laerere end voksne.
Naar vi kigger gennem eksemplerne i tekstbogen, siger de naesten altid: "Haha, det lyder saa unaturligt," eller "saadan ville min bedstefar sige," saa paa den maade laere jeg at tale ligesom den japanske ungdom - hvilket jo er fedt.


Bukatsu!

In the Japanese school system they have something that is (at least I think) unique to the Japanese, club activities. I know they have club activities in the US as well but they are season based, the Japanese are not.
At the school there are oh so many clubs - maybe more than 20. There almost all kind of popular sports (soccer, volleyball, badminton, tennis, kyudo, hand ball, swimming etc.) and creative clubs (calligraphy, singing, brass band, string orchestra, pop/rock groups, painting, drawing (manga), writing, broadcasting, photographing etc.).
When I first came here I had been thinking about joining the Kendo club (which I was later to find out didn`t exist on my new school) or at least some other sports club because of the strong relationship between people that usually exists. However I, of course, fell in love with the talented musicians and just had to join a music club. Hence, I ended up joining the school`s brass band and I`m now learning to play the trombone, whihc I think I`m doing pretty good with.
We have practice everyday after school including saturday, and from next week we have practice on sundays as well (whihc I`m not gonna attend though, as I think it`s a bit too much). School usually ends between 3pm and 4pm and band practice ends at 6:30pm, so I get home around 7:30pm every day.
It was really hard in the beginning but now that I`m starting to get used to it, I can`t imagine what I was gonna do if there was no club.

Anyway, I think that`s enough for today.



I det japanske skolesystem er der noget, som (tror jeg) er unikt for Japan: klubaktiviteter. Jeg ved godt, at de ogsaa har klubaktiviter i USA, men de saesonafhaengige, det er de japanske ikke.
Paa skolen er der forfaerdelig mange klubber - maaske mere end 20. Naeste alle populaere sportsgraene (fodbold, volleyball, badminton, tennis, kyudo, haandbold, svoemning etc.) er repraesenteret, og kreative klubber (kalligrafi, sang, brass band, strygerorkester, pop/rock grupper, maling, tegning (manga), skrivning,
broadcasting, fotografering etc.).
Da jeg kom her til Japan, havde jeg taenkt mig at melde mig ind i kendoklubben (hvilket jeg senere skulle finde ud af, ikke eksisterede paa min skole) eller i hvert fald en eller anden anden sportsklub, pga. holdaanden der er blandt sportsfolk. Men selvfoelgelig blev jeg forelsket i de enormt talentfulde musikere, og jeg blev bare noedt til at melde mig ind i en musikklub.
Altsaa, jeg endte med at komme i skolens brass band, hvor jeg nu laerer mig at spille paa trombone (traekbassoon), hvilket jeg synes, jeg ikke er helt daarlig til.
Vi oever hver dag efter skole inkl. loerdag, og fra naeste uge oever vi ogsaa om soendagen (hvilkeg jeg dog ikke har taenkt mig at komme til, da det bliver lidt for meget). Skolen ender normalt mellem 15 og 16 og klubaktiviter slutter kl. 18:30, saa normalt er jeg hjemme omkrign 19:30 hver dag.
I starten var det enormt haardt, men nu da jeg er ved at blive vandt til det, kan jeg ikke forestille mig, hvad jeg skulle goere, hvis der ikke var nogen klub.<

Naar, det var vist nok for i dag.