The first day of school was okay. It started by Julian (German), Johanna (German), Margaux (French), Cosette (American), and I (American) introducing ourselves to thirty very nice but shy Taiwanese kids. Of course we had to say our introductions in Chinese which all-in-all I think we were fairly successful at. Then Cosette and I went to our home room class while the Europeans went to the one next door, and we sat and listened for four hours while the teacher gave a speech. Of course I didn't understand any of it but she sounded very enthusiastic. I left later that day feeling confused and challenged by how hard of a journey learning Chinese is going to be.
The next day, however, was amazing. It started out with a very easy English class. Afterwards Julian and I made some new friends while kicking ass in a competitive basketball game during gym. Then we went upstairs for lunch and the customary hour nap which I think I can get used to. I ended the day with three hours of rigorous, but rewarding, Chinese lessons. Thursday and Friday were also very rewarding in that my Chinese has gotten exponentially better and my English is thus getting progressively worse (as you might be able to tell from the very short and simple sentences in this blog).
My school schedule is arguably the coolest schedule anyone has ever had it is as follows:
Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
8:10- Creative Taekwondo English Cake Making Chinese Writing
9:00 Painting
9:10- "" "" "" "" Chinese
10:00
10:10- English Acupressure PE "" ""
11:00
11:10- "" "" PE "" ""
12:00
Lunch/nap
13:20- Group Japanese Chinese Fine Arts Calligraphy
14:10 Activity Cooking
14:15- "" "" "" Basic Design Calligraphy
15:05
15:10- Chinese "" "" Basic Design Chinese
16:00 Writing writing
Cool Right!? This is clearly not an academic exchange.
In other news I met my host father! I think he is very nice but it's very hard to communicate with him because he don't know any English. Also he is away on business most of the time.
(right to left) sister, brother, mom, weird guy, grandpa, counselor |
My House! |
My New Room |
Reina and Tahcoon! |
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