Tomorrow is registration, and if you want to get the class you want, you have to wake up early (not 7AM early, 3AM early), and sit out in the freezing cold for hours
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these things about japanese culture are especially alarming to me as an outsider and there are things about japanese culture socially that (how should i say this) creep me out completley. especially when japanese kids emulate western culture (ganguro!). y'know mie, i still think that you would be just as cool if you had lived in japan. i always thought you were cool.
Go Mie. I know exactly what you are feeling . . . I felt the same way when I went to Japanese school. Seriously, their school system fucks up more people than you think. They can't handle inidividuality. My boyfriend was one of those, unfortunately . . . he got beat up in high school and didn't show up after ichinensei. No wonder he came here . ..
At first when I read it, I thought your "ichinensei" meant first grade (elementry). That kinda got me confused.. but yeah, I bet you saw more then I did.. I mean, I went to ASIJ, which is American School in Japan so it had to be better, or different, then real Japanese schools. Even then, you went to O-berin right? I think that they are too, a little bit better then some other total Japanese schools.. (but then again, if you look down there is whole lot worse in any case.. so
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and yet at the same time you can go there as a foreighner and be the most popular person at school. i think that japanese school systems need to loose the "pass or fail" system and mabey tensions wouldn't run so high. i got really pissed in class today anyway. we had an argument day and all evreyone else cared to talk about were things that didn't matter. so i bring up genocide in sudan and nobody knew about it or cared. i was trying to make the point that if it doesn't happen to white people than nobody cares but i was completley blown off.
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