Summer break
Finally my year here in Japan has reached its point where summer break begins! But oh what a summer break. Can you believe it? Only 1 month!!!
I don`t know what`s wrong with these Japanese people, they must really like studying. Also when I ask all my friends what they are gonna do in the summer break I get the same answer all the time: Study
For most European people this sounds absurd I am sure. To spend your entire summer break on studying! But the Japanse student`s case is a little different. For in order to enter a University (which almost everybody at my school is going to), you must pass a REALLY tough entrance exam. In Denmark it works a bit different, you have the most important exam at the end of high school and if you pass, you can go to various educational institutions. However, in Japan all those places have an entrance exam and a LOT of people fail them year after year. Especially the entrance exams at famous universities such as Tokyo University only let very intelligent people through.
Now, the entrance exam is one thing - next is the payment. Because as opposed to Denmark (I really love my country for this) where education is free, the prices in Japan for going to universities are extremely high. Only rich people can graduate with a high education at a famous university.
Anyway, I was talking about summer vacation. Besides from studying (I guess I became a little Japanese after all) what am I gonna do?
The answer is simple, do everything I didnt have time to before. Since I have been going to school from morning till evening every day and been busy almost every weekend I have not have much time to anything at home. There is more to Japan than studying, really! I`m gonna play the piano, I am gonna practice writing calligraphy, I am gonna explore Japan, I am gonna walk around in Yokohama, I am gonna have fun with my friends, Im gonna go on a camp with my club and Im gonna spend time with my host family.
A month ago I talked to the other exchange student from Thailand, Ford, about what we were gonna do in the summer holidays, and we both agreed that we were gonna be extremely bored since the Japapanese youth dont really spend a lot of time hanging out together the same we as we do in Europe (and apparently Thailand as well). We would just have a whole month doing nothing!
However, I just realized recently that this is my chance to do all the things that I dont have time to do normally because of school. Yay!
Tomorrow or soon I am gonna upload a whole bunch of pictures from the last couple of months. Since I havent been to good at updating this blog (it takes much more effort than you would think) the summer break is also a chance to get it up to date again, and write about all the cool things that has happened here in the East.
Tomorrow or soon, that is.
Endelig er mit ophold her i Japan naaet til det punkt, hvor der er summerferie! Men hvilken sommeferie... kun 1 maaned!!!
Jeg ved ikke, hvad der er galt med de kaere japanere. De maa virkelig kunne lide at studere. Oven i det, naar jeg spoerger alle mine venner, hvad de skal lave i sommerferien, faar jeg hver gang det samme svar: Studere
Jeg er sikker paa det lyder absurd for det fleste europaerere: at bruge hele sin sommerferie paa at studere! Men japanerne har en god undskyldning. For for at komme ind paa et universitet (hvilket naesten alle paa min skole skal), skal men bestaa en ENORMT svaer optagelseseksamen. I Danmark fungerer det lidt anderledes. Vi har vores mest vigtige eksamen i slutningen af gymnasiet, og hvis du bestaar, kan du fortsaette paa diverser uddannelsesinstitutioner. Men i Japan er der en optagelseseksamen paa alle de steder, og rigtig mange dumber aar efter aar. Specielt optagelseseksamen paa diverse kendte universiteter som f.eks. Tokyo Universitet lader kun meget begavede personer igennem.
Men optagelseseksamen er een ting. Noget andet er betalingen. For i modsaetning til Danmark (Jeg elsker virkelig Danmark for det her), hvor uddannelse er gratis, er priserne for at studere paa et universitet i Japan utrolig hoej. Kun rige folk har raad til at lade sig udraabe til akademiker paa et kendt universitet.
Naa, det var sommerferien, jeg kom fra. Ud over at studere (det lader til, jeg er blevet lidt japaner naar alt kommer til alt) hvad skla jeg ellers lave?
Svaret er simpelt: goere alt det, jeg ikke har haft tid til foer. Siden jeg har vaeret i skole fra morgen til aften hver dag og har haft tralvt naesten hver weekend, har jeg ikke haft meget tid til at goere noget som helst herhjemme. Der er mere at goere i Japan end at studere, tro mig! Jeg skal spille klvaer, jeg skal oeve mig paa at male kalligrafi, jeg skal udforske Japan, jeg skal vandre rundt i Yokohama, jeg skal have det sjovt med mine venner, jeg skal paa lejr med min klub, og jeg skal bruge tid med min vaertsfamilie.
For en maanedstid siden snakkede jeg med den andne udvekslingsstudent fra Thailand, Ford, om, hvad vi skulle lave i sommerferien, og vi blev vist begge enige om, at vi kom til at kede os. For den japanske ungdom bruger ikke rigtig tid paa at haenge ud sammen paa samme maade, som vi goer i Danmark (og aabenbart ogsaa i Thailand). Vi ville bare have en maaned til at goere ingenting!
Men jeg indsaa for nylig, at det her er min chance til at goere alt det, jeg ikke har haft tid til at goere foer pga. skolen. Yay!
I morgen eller snart, vil jeg laegge en masse billeder op her fra de sidste par maaneder. Da jeg ikke har vaeret for god til at holde den her side up-to-date (det kraever mere selvdisciplin end man skulle tro) er sommerferien jo ogsaa en god chance til at opdatere det hele og skrive om alle det sjove ting, der er sket her oestpaa.
Det bliver i morgen eller snart.
I don`t know what`s wrong with these Japanese people, they must really like studying. Also when I ask all my friends what they are gonna do in the summer break I get the same answer all the time: Study
For most European people this sounds absurd I am sure. To spend your entire summer break on studying! But the Japanse student`s case is a little different. For in order to enter a University (which almost everybody at my school is going to), you must pass a REALLY tough entrance exam. In Denmark it works a bit different, you have the most important exam at the end of high school and if you pass, you can go to various educational institutions. However, in Japan all those places have an entrance exam and a LOT of people fail them year after year. Especially the entrance exams at famous universities such as Tokyo University only let very intelligent people through.
Now, the entrance exam is one thing - next is the payment. Because as opposed to Denmark (I really love my country for this) where education is free, the prices in Japan for going to universities are extremely high. Only rich people can graduate with a high education at a famous university.
Anyway, I was talking about summer vacation. Besides from studying (I guess I became a little Japanese after all) what am I gonna do?
The answer is simple, do everything I didnt have time to before. Since I have been going to school from morning till evening every day and been busy almost every weekend I have not have much time to anything at home. There is more to Japan than studying, really! I`m gonna play the piano, I am gonna practice writing calligraphy, I am gonna explore Japan, I am gonna walk around in Yokohama, I am gonna have fun with my friends, Im gonna go on a camp with my club and Im gonna spend time with my host family.
A month ago I talked to the other exchange student from Thailand, Ford, about what we were gonna do in the summer holidays, and we both agreed that we were gonna be extremely bored since the Japapanese youth dont really spend a lot of time hanging out together the same we as we do in Europe (and apparently Thailand as well). We would just have a whole month doing nothing!
However, I just realized recently that this is my chance to do all the things that I dont have time to do normally because of school. Yay!
Tomorrow or soon I am gonna upload a whole bunch of pictures from the last couple of months. Since I havent been to good at updating this blog (it takes much more effort than you would think) the summer break is also a chance to get it up to date again, and write about all the cool things that has happened here in the East.
Tomorrow or soon, that is.
Endelig er mit ophold her i Japan naaet til det punkt, hvor der er summerferie! Men hvilken sommeferie... kun 1 maaned!!!
Jeg ved ikke, hvad der er galt med de kaere japanere. De maa virkelig kunne lide at studere. Oven i det, naar jeg spoerger alle mine venner, hvad de skal lave i sommerferien, faar jeg hver gang det samme svar: Studere
Jeg er sikker paa det lyder absurd for det fleste europaerere: at bruge hele sin sommerferie paa at studere! Men japanerne har en god undskyldning. For for at komme ind paa et universitet (hvilket naesten alle paa min skole skal), skal men bestaa en ENORMT svaer optagelseseksamen. I Danmark fungerer det lidt anderledes. Vi har vores mest vigtige eksamen i slutningen af gymnasiet, og hvis du bestaar, kan du fortsaette paa diverser uddannelsesinstitutioner. Men i Japan er der en optagelseseksamen paa alle de steder, og rigtig mange dumber aar efter aar. Specielt optagelseseksamen paa diverse kendte universiteter som f.eks. Tokyo Universitet lader kun meget begavede personer igennem.
Men optagelseseksamen er een ting. Noget andet er betalingen. For i modsaetning til Danmark (Jeg elsker virkelig Danmark for det her), hvor uddannelse er gratis, er priserne for at studere paa et universitet i Japan utrolig hoej. Kun rige folk har raad til at lade sig udraabe til akademiker paa et kendt universitet.
Naa, det var sommerferien, jeg kom fra. Ud over at studere (det lader til, jeg er blevet lidt japaner naar alt kommer til alt) hvad skla jeg ellers lave?
Svaret er simpelt: goere alt det, jeg ikke har haft tid til foer. Siden jeg har vaeret i skole fra morgen til aften hver dag og har haft tralvt naesten hver weekend, har jeg ikke haft meget tid til at goere noget som helst herhjemme. Der er mere at goere i Japan end at studere, tro mig! Jeg skal spille klvaer, jeg skal oeve mig paa at male kalligrafi, jeg skal udforske Japan, jeg skal vandre rundt i Yokohama, jeg skal have det sjovt med mine venner, jeg skal paa lejr med min klub, og jeg skal bruge tid med min vaertsfamilie.
For en maanedstid siden snakkede jeg med den andne udvekslingsstudent fra Thailand, Ford, om, hvad vi skulle lave i sommerferien, og vi blev vist begge enige om, at vi kom til at kede os. For den japanske ungdom bruger ikke rigtig tid paa at haenge ud sammen paa samme maade, som vi goer i Danmark (og aabenbart ogsaa i Thailand). Vi ville bare have en maaned til at goere ingenting!
Men jeg indsaa for nylig, at det her er min chance til at goere alt det, jeg ikke har haft tid til at goere foer pga. skolen. Yay!
I morgen eller snart, vil jeg laegge en masse billeder op her fra de sidste par maaneder. Da jeg ikke har vaeret for god til at holde den her side up-to-date (det kraever mere selvdisciplin end man skulle tro) er sommerferien jo ogsaa en god chance til at opdatere det hele og skrive om alle det sjove ting, der er sket her oestpaa.
Det bliver i morgen eller snart.
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