Farewell Sannensei

In Japan, entrance to university is harder than the work that you do once you get there. All across the nation, students in Japan are preparing for their university entrance examinations, and today they went off to their first practice.

The whole school filed along the pavement as the ten buses of 3rd year students drove to their fate. Two of the kids from my class were involved in the Japanese taiko drum playing which were played next to the school entrance, adding to the atmosphere.

We were instructed to wave, and wave properly. As we were doing the big send off, one of the students had drawn a sign saying “Yes we can!”. This has become a real catch phrase, and was picked up in Japan from Obama’s campaign this year (along with “Change!”)

We finished school at 2pm today which was amazing. I’ve got my AFS farewell meeting tomorrow, and I was hoping to have written a speech for it, but at this stage it looks like I’m going to just wing it. She’ll be right mate.

~ by carey on January 16, 2009.