Presentation Day

Today was presentation day in Japanese class! We all meet in the same room, but each have our own teachers (or 2 to 1), but today we were all in together. We were warned that we each had to give a one minute presentation in front of the whole class, introducing ourselves in Japanese. My teacher pretty much wrote mine for me, and I just had to learn it. I thought I had it down pat, but of course, being nervous, I forgot words and stuffed it up a bit, but no biggy. What they didn`t tell us about today was that it was gonna be a cultural day. SO much fun!!!

When we got there, Mike and Matt got sent out of the room, and each of us girls got dressed up in Yukata (summer kimono) - it was unreal!!!! I felt so Japanesey! We all gave our presentations, then the teachers gave a presentation about Tanabata, and we each had to write a wish in Japanese (with substantial assistance!) and hang it on the bamboo. Then, they brought out all these Japanese snacks for us to try!! I tried this "sweet" green thing with reddish stuff inside - it was so weird! It looked a little like a squishy slug type thing, complete with red guts! I didn`t really like it - and it wasn`t what I`d call sweet, but it was a good experience anyway! So unreal!!! I want to do something for my teacher, but I can`t think of what... teach her how to slurp coffee thru tim tams perhaps? (Did I tell u that u can get tim tams here - for about double the price in Aust?)

Then afterwards I had coffee with 2 of the Dutch students, Odette and Eriko, and Rachel was walking by and stopped too. And then Rachel and I found out about ballroom dancing classes!!!! We`re gonna start on Monday afternoon!! YAY!!! So exciting!

On a sadder note, how tragic is the bombing in London?! :,(