SCHOOL

I am actually still in the building as I write this. I have about another hour to kill before my oral exam.
ANYWAY,
This morning was the first morning of school. I woke up at around seven, but was really tired because I was so nervous about today that I couldn't really sleep. Which is pretty ridiculous. BUT, I got to get up, walk to the store for a calorie mate (which are the best things ever. They are small but have a lot of calories in them so you are supposed to stay full for longer... I think) and some coffee, and got to get ready for the day slowly, which was nice.
About an hour before class started, I got on my bike, turned my iPod to Prince's "Dirty Mind," and headed out. I got to Yokohama station in about twenty minutes, and I thought that I was going to get to school a lot faster than I had planned to...
BUT, the road to get to school really threw me off. I only actually had come to school on my bike once before, and had forgotten how to get here, so I had to do a lot of going back and backtracking. I finally managed to, and with still fifteen minutes to spare.
The first thing we did was to have just a simple orientation: The teachers were introduced and all of us students did little self-introductions...
That is when I realized that everyone here is really, really, really good at Japanese.
There are so many people here who are pursuing their PhD, and so many other people who have lived here for a long time, or for whatever reason are just really really good at Japanese. Which is good to have a big group of students (there are 59 of us) who are all pretty high levels, but it is still very intimidating. Hopefully I will RISE TO THE CHALLENGE or whatever.

The teachers all seem really nice, and today we have an oral interview/test, one on one with the teachers for 15 minutes each. According to Sarah (who did the program a couple of years ago), the little meeting is put on video... here is where my YouTube video making pays off!

Let's hope this goes well. I think I will come to school early tomorrow and try to put up some pictures of the school and stuff on here! Yay!

Talk to you all later!