Well, the 43rd enrollment ceremonies for my school were held today at the Miyako Hotel near Tennoji station. The principal was long winded to the point that it felt like one of those cliche moments in every Japanese drama where the principal gives a speech. Out of the seven or so staff members who gave speeches, three of them were English speaking foreigners. At this point I'm not going to hazard a guess who is American, Australian, or European and I can understand why Japanese people don't bother to seperate us when foreigner is such a safe catch all.
I didn't realize until today that this language school taught other languages. Apparently they have English and Spanish departments in addition to the Japanese courses that are provided. The whole shin dig was over in a little over an hour. They mentioned something about electives for people who received the fliers on the way in but that wasn't me, so I left when the talking was done.
On the bright side, an NTT guy came by to think me for keeping my service from my old apartment and said something about a 20% discount which is awesome. On the other hand an NHK guy came by and I think he was doing one of those donation runs because he kept asking me if I had a TV. If my co-worker was right, those guys come around asking for money if you watch NHK programming and they're kind of persistant. If it turns out like that I'll just have to use the, "Oh, I'm a foreigner so I can't understand your strange language."
Tomorrow is another brief day at the school for orientation. I think the hand out mentions something about there being medical exams but I'm not sure. Either way, I'll figure it out tomorrow.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment