My School Life As A Teenage FES

 Intro   
     Just finished my first week of school today, which collectively was over 35hrs. I'm already SUPER tired. Even today on my rest day I was awoken by a neighbor which poped into my room that said something-something-seshiro(brother)-something okay? I just said okay so he'd leave and I can get more sleep. I guess not questioning him and asking him to repeat it slower was dumb cuz now I think my brother Seshiro who promised to take me to his university is gonna come and I don't know when -_-.

Girls
     Anyways back to school life. First off G-ZUS for all you that know me can you even picture me as the Cool Exchange Student? My school population is filled with 80% girls and most of them are very over zealous and very forward. Most of them only know how to say "hello", "bye-bye", and small things and they LOVE to test that out on foreigners. Honestly it's called peripheral vision guys I can see you staring at me from across the room! I guess I don't REALLY mind and sorta think it's flattering too because I it was Friday when a girl came up to me and started talking broken English trying to get to know and ended up saying I was handsome. Now it's quite possible that she didn't know what she was saying but it was flattering none the less. Girls in Japan are super different from girls in America. Like honestly I couldn't even wait for my school van to take my to practice with a buncha girls comeing up to me saying "Helro". Whereas in America if I were a Japanese exchange student we'd pass each other without even the slightest acknowledgment.

Guys
     Guys on the other hand.... EVERYWHERE you go in the school they're always saying "nichob" now if you know Japanese you know having a the letter B at the end of a word is impossible. It took me a while to learn that it was slang yet even now I cannot say it and end up just saying "konichiwa". Guys say it to EVERYONE to teacher- nichiob to older classmen- nichob and even to each other- nichob. But one thing stays the same everywhere you go...and that's the level of maturity guys have. If you remember PE in high school the guys are pretty much the same here. Except.... THEYRE ALL FREAKN ACROBATS. On my first day of PE everyone had to do partnered handstands. I got paired up with the bigger group which consist of me and a guy that's probably like 50g lighter then me. I could only do the first handstand and not the second D=. And everytime I fell I would laugh like crazy we even got yelled at for not taking it serious because I was laughing so loud. And at the end where everyone was wearing a frown and was sore I had a biggo smile on my face.  And then we had to do three person acrobatics which is me -the base- another -the top- and the last -the bottom- Basically all I have to do is carry the top on my shoulders and carry the bottom on my waist while he does an airplank. And there are two other ways as well which are just as hard. Afterward we had to build human pyramids and Gawd Dam cheerleaders make it look easy! My group couldn't do it at all! It's super hard of the back!

My Class
     I guess I can understand why the guys in my class are the way that they are... I was placed in a sophomore class so they haven't matured... AT ALL. I feel super guilty because I can't remember any of their names at all. I just entitled them with simple title like "Green Day" for the guy who likes Green Day "Red Head" for... well you get it" It's actually even harder to remember the girls names because there are so many of them AND the classes is divided. Sure we study together, we have all our classes together, the same homework BUT when it comes to a break time or lunch the guys grab one corner and the girls fill in the rest. No one intermingles and apparently that's how it ALWAYS has been. It guess in that sense making friends landed in my favor because all the guys stuck together I automatically became "one of the guys".

Teachers
     Teachers are like M&Ms.... ah ha just kidding sorry most of you won't get it. Anyways they're all SUPER nice. I thought some of them were really strict from their first appearance and presence like the Social Science teacher and the PE teacher but it turns out the SS teacher was just extremely sarcastic and the PE teacher has to put on the rough exterior having about 100 guys in his PE class. I also have about 3/4 guardian teachers that recognizes that I'm a foreign student and am EXTREMELY lost about 60% of the time, especially when it comes to buses. So they hunt my down ask me things slowly and make sure that I have the hook ups ah ha. For instance yesterday... I was suppose to be waiting for a bus but didn't want to make it all awkward for the girls sitting at the bus stop so I was waiting at the entrance of the school behind some trees. I thought that the bus would be big enough that I would see it coming and be able to make it before it left. I was even talking these two girls that were extremely interested in my very existence just because I was foreign. I was sitting, talking, talking, sitting and then finally Kojima sensei one of my teachers come from around the corner and tells me to go over there. He had been holding up the school VAN that was parked in front waiting for me. G-ZUS I was the person holding everyone up. I couldn't even see the van behind the trees. But if he wasn't there the bus woulda left without me and that would of been horrible because its a 50min bus ride home (The walk through the unlit road to Chiran woulda killed me alone). I have more stories of teachers saving me but I like this one the best... plus its the most recent =].

School Routine
     Well I get up Monday through Friday at 6:00 to prepare and eat breakfast. The bus arrives at 7:16 promptly. I get to school around 8:10ish and have about 30mins until school starts. We have I think 4/5 classes until lunch at 12:40. Afterward we change for 2hrs of PE (yes the same PE that I describe as hellish). Afterward if you have a sport you can keep wearing your PE ware otherwise you have to change back to the uniform. Then about 3ish we have a class that really isn't a class at all. Its just when the class presidents talks about some stuff and the girls work on what look like Pom-Poms. Then you have your club/ sport til before 7 when your bus leaves. You then promptly arrive home about 8. Saturday is basically the same thing but school ends at 1:30 and then club/ sports and the bus/van leaves at 6.

Conclude
     And that's my School Life as a FES. Ah ha you probably are wondering what a FES is. Well do you guys remember "That's 70 Show"? Well one of the exchange students told me that his name wasn't Fes he was a FES a Foreign Exchange Student!!!! If you guys ever have a question about Japanese school don't hesitate to leave a comment~