1. i know it's thursday, but why, why, WHY do i have school on saturdays. WHY?!?! i am already dreading it. for serious. and i know i should be used to going to school on saturdays because i went to japanese school and stuff, but this should be illegal. plus i have practice on saturdays. until 4. WHAT IS THIS MADNESS. make it stop. and i'll have SAT class on sundays, so life is extra sucky.
2. english grammar class is uber hard. yes, i know, laugh if you must. but seriously, it's so hard trying to relearn a language you speak fluently. so, so hard. and our teacher is japanese, and she's like so TOTALLY wrong on some things that i just want to hit her. well she's pretty old so she might die, so maybe i just want to smack her head a little. but either way, it's so hard to learn things like helping verbs when you need to know how to translate them back to japanese. sentences that flow from my mind automatically have to be dissected, analyzed, translated. and apparently, because japanese people are so damn systematic, there is a CORRECT translation for everything, and it isn't open to interpretation whatsoever. and also, there are sometimes MULTIPLE ways of translating things, but the "rule-book of english" (written by a japanese person, i presume) that our teacher uses doesn't contain all of them, so only one way is correct. for example:
"she cannot be free"
so i took this to mean...well, now i have to put it back in english, but basically that if some guy was holding her hostage, he was refusing to let her go. this makes sense, right?!?
but apparently, the book only listed one meaning...like, "she cannot be free!", an expression of disbelief.
good lord. i hate this class. it's terrible because i've spent 15 years in the states, i am fluent in english, and yet i will probably get like a D on this test because i can't use my instincts and USE MY NORMAL ENGLISH.
wow. major rage. sorry. and a lot of caps. lower case letters, i apologize.
3. i think it's kinda cool how kids in japan always have to clean their own classrooms. meaning, we don't really have janitors. well they exist, but they only help out in the gardens/grounds and i guess they do like, major cleaning of classrooms during breaks and stuff. but every day after school, we all have to take turns and sweep/mop/etc. it's pretty nice. it also encourages the kids not to leave the rooms a complete mess, because they know they'll have to clean it up later.
maybe brearley should do that. but then again, i can't possibly imagine all of us cleaning our homerooms.
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