Friday, 15 June 2012

Japanese classes!!!

Hi all, I have been quiet for a week again, and this time the reason is: Japanese classes!!! I started Japanese classes since Monday. I have 3h of private classes every afternoon from Monday to Friday in an area called Meguro. It takes me around 45 minutes to get there (which is pretty close in Tokyo standards). I have two different teachers which is quiet nice. I have M-sensei on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays and I have O-sensei on Tuesdays and Thursdays. The reason it is nice to have two different teachers is that I don't get used to only one way of speaking and the rhythm of the class changes as well. Both teachers are really nice and classes are a lot of fun even if I have to admit I'm quiet happy it's weekend now and I don't have any classes. These classes are only 3 hours a days but they actually take up most of my days. I get a LOT of homework (mostly from M-sensei) so I work on my homework during for about 2 to 3 hours each morning. I check my mails and then I leave to Meguro. My classes only start at 13h, but if I leave at 12h to get there, it'd mean I would have to have lunch at 11h, so instead, I leave at 11h and have lunch at around 12h in Meguro before my class. I usually arrive back at the hostel at around 17h30 and either do some groceries or read for a little while and then cook dinner. However, sometimes I have language exchanges. On Wednesday, I met this Japanese girl who speaks very good French. She lived in Paris for "only" 10 months but her French is really good. It's so good we ended up not really speaking Japanese, but we agreed that the next time we would meet, we'd speak in Japanese. She put an add in a magazine called the 'Tokyo Notice Board'. It's an English only Tokyo magazine in which all types of adds (sales, language exchanges, Japanese language schools,...) can be found. She works for the magazine and decided to put her add in there to find someone to practice French with. On Thursday I had another language exchange with two girls I met at the international party I went to with London, London's girlfriend and New-Zealand. We got along really well at that party and exchanged phone numbers saying we should meet again to do some English-Japanese language exchanged. At the start of the week I sent them a message asking if they would like to meet on Thursday evening which is what we did. It was really a lot of fun. We ended up talking for 4 hours and only 30 minutes of those were in English ( although I obviously did use English words here and there throughout the whole conversation since I'm lacking a lot of vocabulary). I'm probably going to go to Nikko with one of them (Ruriko-san) next Sunday as she has never been there either and the three of us will go to Hakone and Kamakura when Yuka-san is back from Korea.

1 comment:

  1. Please, make a list of all the people you meet and who they are, I've already lost track :p

    Non je rigole, c'est cool que tu rencontres autant de gens ! :)

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