FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL
ni hao.well lets start this off. i woke up around 6:30 so I could get my self all cleaned up and looking/smelling good because school starts here at 7:30 am, yeah i know WTF. So once i get my shit together, me and mom head out the door in the benz and my new rad school uniform. we roll up to the school with the huge cross hanging in the door way, yeah boi catholic school. one problem though my belt is failing....HARD. so after my mother and i try to figure this stupid thing out we had to ask some of my new school mates to help me do it up, now i don't get embarased to easily but jebus it was deffinatley not the way i wanted to make friends haha.
So once we get inside my mother starts walking ahead of me, i assume she must be taking me to meet someone other than the dean we met the day before. so i start following her all around this massive school with everyone either giggling or saying hello, but then i noticed she was looking a little lost mostly because we went up and down the same set of stairs three times and she was asking students for directions. I try to help and take her to the Deans office but she ignores me and keeps walking around but I don't mind, this way i get to see more of the school. Finally the Dean comes and saves my Mother and me and takes us to the office I was trying to take my Hana to all along. We figure some stuff out, she hands me my schedual which looks something like this.
Monday
1. Math
2. Chinese
3. open
4. open
5. Program design
6. Program design
7. Chinese
8. Chinese
Tuesday
1. English
2. Math
3. Self Taught?
4. English Listening and Speaking exercises
5. Program design
6. Database
7. open
8. open
Wednesday
1. open
2. open
3. Math
4. Chinese
5. Life Ed
6. Training
7. Chinese
8. Chinese
Thursday
1. Math
2. English
3. open
4. open
5. Chinese
6. Nation Defense (Yeah Ima fight for Taiwan)
7. English
8. Computer Animation
Friday
1. open
2. open
3. Database
4. Database
5. open
6. open
7. Chinese
8. Chinese
So this is how I'll be reping my days for the next week, I think I might drop National defence though and maybe the computer stuff (Its pretty hard...even more when your teacher doesn't speak english btw Database isn't as interesting as it sounds). So i find my class room and after having a nice embarassing introduction, my councellor making people move for me and assigning people to help me out i finally found my seat at the back of the class. No one really spoke english so i tried to make some friends, i think I did haha. So after this class which i think was self taught because the teacher did nothing and everyone was studying something different, like the kid on my left was looking a design magazine and the kid on my right was studying the M16 rifle. After all this I'm told I can go to the library because i have an open, I make my way through the crowds of staring people and giggling people and finally get to the library where i see Palm the Thai exchange. We sit and talk for a bit as i look through a arcitectural design mag....i really wish i could draw tbh. So after i look at the cool pictures because it's all in chinese I play some games on his cellphone, which I'm horrible at and then a group of junior highs come in. All the girls piled in at our table and some kid that really wanted to learn english. So i try to help him and he help me with some chinese and the girls are asking me for my cell number and email while there teacher tells me not to give it to them. It was pretty funny how many people want to be my dick puppet, I mean Girlfriend (LOL). So after all this i head to my next class which is english, ractise which thankfully is in my home room, so our teacher comes in, some kid says my name and she focuses all her attention on me asking me to come up and introduce myself. I made it short because i really didn't want to be up there but then she made it worse by forcing students to ask me questions haha. Row for row so i had to answer about 7. The first was do you have a girlfriend, next do any of us have a chance to be your girlfriend and next which was who is your perfect girl, then it broke down into generic what music do you like and whats your favorite thing about taiwan oh and the one loud guy in the back ask how long is was HAHA. I told them my perfect girl is 10 feet tall and 400 pounds with curly red hair because what the hell do you say to that. So after all that I finally get to sit and just enjoy the class, I joke with some friends and learn that the english teacher really can't speak english that well.
After a long boring class the bell rings and it's time to roll out to lunch, one girl asks if i want to eat with her, of course I say yes and me, her and one of the guys thats supposed to help me walk down the hall with all there friends. I show up at the cafeteria which is a little building in the middle of the compound, the girl asks if i like rice and run of into the sea of people with my money. So i stand outside and try to talk with some people, she comes back with some rice topped with some kind of mystery meat and i end up walking off with some guys back to the class room. I sit down and start looking around because i guess you bring your own utensils but someone was nice enough to give me a spoon so i sit and eat and try to make some small talk with some people, and then the bell goes and absolutely every one starts to clean. LIKE EVERYONE! people are moping the floor, cleaning windows....it's absurd.
So after I finish up the blackboard, we all sit down and a bell rings and I'm like oh cool another class but the lights turn off and everyone put there head down and has a nap. A few kids look out the window but when a teacher walks by they all hide haha this school is weird not to mention there's a military base next door so you hear the sound barrier being broken in the distance, so i found it kinda hard to nap.
Ok well in the morning i signed up for some computer stuff and i thought it would be easy shit like we learn back home, no my first class is program design where Hugo (the usa exchange) and I input alot of script into some visual basic compiler to tell us if a number was the same forward and backward or not. Next was Database which is alot lamer than it sounds, basically we played with a program that help us manage accounts, contacts, sales and purchases of a company. So after a long time of plugging in numbers and wonder what i was doing the bell finally rings and i sit in the library for 2 hours before i can go home. AT 5:20 PM >:(
All in all school is strange in Taiwan maybe it's just because it's a catholic military school.
I miss you all <3
Ben
posted by Ben @ 5:02 AM
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