I couldn’t find any other places that is really important for me but my middle school. Or maybe I should say SJS---Shanghai Japanese School (not only my middle school but also including my primary school.) I haven’t been in primary school in Japan for so long time, only for the first 3 years. At first I’ve been to one in Nagoya, and then moved to Kawaguchi. Compare the ones in Japan and the one in Shanghai, SJS is the best one I think.
The teachers in SJS are all sent from the ministry of education of Japan, so I believe their quality is good enough. And so are the students. All of the teachers and students are from all around Japan, or maybe all around the world. Our environment is good too. A big library (actually not as big as SUIS’), two gyms with stages, three or four or more music rooms with grand pianos, many laboratories, two cooking rooms, home making rooms, lots of classrooms, and many other rooms. And another thing that is different from other country’s schools are some of our subjects. From grade 7 to 9, we all have Japanese, math, English, science, social studies, music, PE, fine art & arts, homemaking, industrial art, Chinese, and English conversation. The point is that no matter you are a boy or a girl, ALL of us have to take all of these subjects even homemaking or soccer in PE. I think it’s really a good system, because girls can join soccer too and boys can learn sewing and cooking too. These skills will never be useless in our future. We also have many activities. We have the opening ceremony and the ending ceremony every semester (three semesters in a year). It’s quite formal that a kind of like our flag raising ceremony in SUIS, but there’s no flag raised haha. We have Sport’s Day, School trip with each grade members, learning presentation event (we’ll sing a choir song with each classes, so we have to prepare from early month), Karuta---a kind of traditional Japanese card game event, ball sports matches event, and so on every year. I like them so much. I like our Student Council too. We have election for it twice a year, and everyone has four times chances. From the second season of grade 7 to before grade 9’s first season. I’ve been in Student Council of SJS for three seasons. Grade 8 first and second seasons, grade 9 first season. We were mixed up every year so after we became grade 9 student, we know about our grade mates really well that we don’t have anyone we don’t know their name!!! I love that!
I said that I like my school doesn’t mean only the buildings of SJS. After we graduated, we also hang out with each other and contact to each other. Well, I know that Chinese students like to use QQ and WeChat, and I do too. Japanese don’t use these two, we use LINE, Skype, and Cacao Talk. LINE is very popular now. I made a group talk of my grade 9 class. Some else made a big group for whole grade 9! We often talk about our own new lives in high schools, and that’s amazing!!! We are talking about meet together in somewhere in Japan someday as our class reunion. I like this idea so much!!! I hope that day will come true soon.
My favorite school, SJS is the buildings, the teachers, our seniors and cute younger students, the great beautiful memories, and the friends all of these. It’s in our hearts. I’m so glad that I could talk about my school today~~!
The teachers in SJS are all sent from the ministry of education of Japan, so I believe their quality is good enough. And so are the students. All of the teachers and students are from all around Japan, or maybe all around the world. Our environment is good too. A big library (actually not as big as SUIS’), two gyms with stages, three or four or more music rooms with grand pianos, many laboratories, two cooking rooms, home making rooms, lots of classrooms, and many other rooms. And another thing that is different from other country’s schools are some of our subjects. From grade 7 to 9, we all have Japanese, math, English, science, social studies, music, PE, fine art & arts, homemaking, industrial art, Chinese, and English conversation. The point is that no matter you are a boy or a girl, ALL of us have to take all of these subjects even homemaking or soccer in PE. I think it’s really a good system, because girls can join soccer too and boys can learn sewing and cooking too. These skills will never be useless in our future. We also have many activities. We have the opening ceremony and the ending ceremony every semester (three semesters in a year). It’s quite formal that a kind of like our flag raising ceremony in SUIS, but there’s no flag raised haha. We have Sport’s Day, School trip with each grade members, learning presentation event (we’ll sing a choir song with each classes, so we have to prepare from early month), Karuta---a kind of traditional Japanese card game event, ball sports matches event, and so on every year. I like them so much. I like our Student Council too. We have election for it twice a year, and everyone has four times chances. From the second season of grade 7 to before grade 9’s first season. I’ve been in Student Council of SJS for three seasons. Grade 8 first and second seasons, grade 9 first season. We were mixed up every year so after we became grade 9 student, we know about our grade mates really well that we don’t have anyone we don’t know their name!!! I love that!
I said that I like my school doesn’t mean only the buildings of SJS. After we graduated, we also hang out with each other and contact to each other. Well, I know that Chinese students like to use QQ and WeChat, and I do too. Japanese don’t use these two, we use LINE, Skype, and Cacao Talk. LINE is very popular now. I made a group talk of my grade 9 class. Some else made a big group for whole grade 9! We often talk about our own new lives in high schools, and that’s amazing!!! We are talking about meet together in somewhere in Japan someday as our class reunion. I like this idea so much!!! I hope that day will come true soon.
My favorite school, SJS is the buildings, the teachers, our seniors and cute younger students, the great beautiful memories, and the friends all of these. It’s in our hearts. I’m so glad that I could talk about my school today~~!