I found out this morning which Japanese University I have been placed in for the Year Abroad exchange program, which will start in September.
I'll be going to the International Christian University (ICU) in West Tokyo for eleven months or so. I didn't even mind that much where I was placed, I just wanted to know where I'd be going so I could arrange it in my head and start making plans.
I wanted to go to Tokyo again because when I lived there last year I felt like nowhere else would feel like home and make me feel fulfilled like Tokyo did. I enjoyed it so much, I knew I wanted to go back there. But, thinking about it now, as long as it's in Japan, anywhere would be great. I know I'll love it wherever I go.
I've been buzzing with excitement all day. I've hardly eaten anything, which is really not like me! I love the feeling of knowing where I'll be going. As long as I pass my summer exams, and nothing unforeseen happens, I'll be heading out to Japan again in late August or early September. Just in time for the end of their summer!
Saturday, February 7, 2009
End of Exams
I had my last exam two weeks ago, which ended a fortnight of exams. I had four of them, and the first was the one I was most scared about - Japanese!
It was a two-hour exam and was comprised of a sentence completion section, Japanese-English translation, a reading comprehension, and an essay.
The hardest part for me was the reading comprehension, which we could answer in English, but it used complicated grammatical strucures and some vocabulary which I had never seen before. But the first two sections were the easiest because we knew what grammar would come up beforehand so we just had to learn what we had studied in Semester One.
My Japanese exam was different to the Basic Japanese Language exam because I'm in the Intermediate class. The students in Basic have to pass the January exam to go to a Japanese University in the second year, which made it much more stressful for them than for the students in the Intermediate group.
Overall, the exams went okay, and although I'm not expecting firsts or anything like that, I think I should have passed them all. It was very strange getting back into revision after nearly two years of break from exams, and I found it hard to write essays under exam conditions due to my lack of practice.
I should get the results for those exams within the next week or two. I keep going through phases of wanting to know and not wanting to know! I'll post about my results when I get them.
It was a two-hour exam and was comprised of a sentence completion section, Japanese-English translation, a reading comprehension, and an essay.
The hardest part for me was the reading comprehension, which we could answer in English, but it used complicated grammatical strucures and some vocabulary which I had never seen before. But the first two sections were the easiest because we knew what grammar would come up beforehand so we just had to learn what we had studied in Semester One.
My Japanese exam was different to the Basic Japanese Language exam because I'm in the Intermediate class. The students in Basic have to pass the January exam to go to a Japanese University in the second year, which made it much more stressful for them than for the students in the Intermediate group.
Overall, the exams went okay, and although I'm not expecting firsts or anything like that, I think I should have passed them all. It was very strange getting back into revision after nearly two years of break from exams, and I found it hard to write essays under exam conditions due to my lack of practice.
I should get the results for those exams within the next week or two. I keep going through phases of wanting to know and not wanting to know! I'll post about my results when I get them.
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