The new school year began this week. On the first day of school only the older students came. After a ceremony introducing the new teachers, we prepared for the arrival of the new students. All of the 1-nen-sei classrooms were decorated and the gym was set up for a ceremony.
My coworkers and I decided that the proper English translation for the ceremony would be “school entrance ceremony,” although I don’t remember anything like this occurring while I was at school. It did however, bring back memories of Freshman convocation at IWU, that being the only thing I could liken it to. I started worrying about the resemblance when a student passed out, however, it wasn't hot and if there was a Japanese equivalent of "oouuuuut", it went over my head.
The ceremony was fairly long, and pretty similar to graduation, with the new students marching in, every student’s name called, and a bunch of speeches by various officials and a couple students. And bowing. Lots of bowing.
1 comment:
Ouuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuut.
Oh the horror.
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