Seacret photoshoot of the school [schoolpost 1/2?]

School started about two weeks ago, wow already that much? At the same time it still feels unbelievable that is has ONLY been that long, since I already have gotten to know so many people and done all kinds of things there. On the other hand I feel like I just started school yesterday and yet don't know anything! What I am going to do now, is share some rare super seacret photo material from my school. I don't know if this is what my school would want me to do that but I'm gonna do it anyways. See, the school doesn't allow cameras (I got to know that after taking these pic's hohoho). The school has all kinds of rules and I've already broken a lot of them, for exmpl. opened the upper button of my school uniforms shirt 'cause it's freaking small for me.

SO without any further a do, here they are, let's start the tour:

View from school window (bamboo!)

Great room, for me it's about Japanese studying

This is the ICR from the inside. It's really nice because you can set the temperature to whatever you like (though I think that goes with every classroom?)

These little phones can be found on the hallways (note, school doesn't allow cellphones)

Average classroom with small crosses on top of the blackboard

And these Marias are freaking everwhere

OmG OmG it's my land!!

I have to tell you, I get so excited everytime I see something about Finland or any Scandinavian countries, so I had to check if this world map book had them and it had! Lovely, aye! Sweden is the absolutely most well known of these all. Have I told you the story when I went to a bookshop and saw a big Swedish flag and went to take a closer look, and guess what, under it there were all these things from Finland, like Iittala glasses etc etc. And they tend to think that Moomies come from Sweden. Thank god I am here to fix the issue.

I went to recheck and yep there it is! Actually there also was a small Finnish flag (wao wao)

More school

Cute clown clock...

...Is absolutely accurate

This post is getting pretty mappy but yeah. St. Mary wants to be global. And it kinda is, these are all the places in the world that this school organization excists

Here we leave shoes and change to slippers and the other way around

Looks delicioussssss

Is delicioussssss

Other window view

And what do I do here every day you ask? Well, I'll tell you. School starts everyday at 9 and last's 'till 16.00-16.30, if you don't go to any clubs. And I do. I decided to join the dance club. Yep, it's true. Though, I may change to art club soon. I was really in between with those two and now the teachers keep telling me that the dance is too hard for me. Well, both are everyday expect Wednesday and I know what they mean. I've now once been to the practise and it was harsh. And I am bad! XD So bad they put me to dance with the junior high students. I currently have one kind of a friend going to the same club and the rest I have no idea who they are. But I'll try like a month or so and then see if I want to change!

And this is me in ICR hi y'all

walk walk hallways everywhere

And that is the end of the tour, thank you for joining me on this journey. I still have some quick words about how the school is going in general here, but the second post is totally dedicated to that. So I study a lot of English, with Junior high and Highschool and besides that Japanese, art, calligraphy, world history and I started learning Korean also. Yeah, you can guess it is difficult trying to learn a new language WITH a language you really yet can't understand. But it's fun, the people there are so cool. And all the rest of the lessons are together with my own class and count as drawing because I don't really bother paying attention to a subject I barely understand what it is. But it's actually great I have gotten all these cool ideas for opening an ice cream shop of my own and stuff. It's good to have a little time to think once awhile. And Japanese classes are usually so much fun, there are only 3 people; me, the teacher (everyday a different one) and an exchange student from Germany! She has been here since August and already speaks awsome Japanese. I have gotten so much advice from her! She is so nice and I am so very happy she's at the same school as me. (Though she will leave in two months, sniff)  And I also have gotten to know really interesting Japanese people and my fears of getting no friends have started to go off a bit. Still, it will take a lot of time to make them like "real" friends, but I have a lot of time.

Absolutely out of context

Aaaaand this one is my name, Venla, written with kanjis. There are many many ways of doing that (here are two), but I totally fell in love with the first one! The photo's dated back to the dog show (so it's old, sorry I totally forgot about this), where this "frisbee dog raiser family" started talking to me. It was great! Their daughter works in my Host familys dog shop so I get to see them again, I hope!  I wanted to share this with you because I find really it interesting. See, it's funny I didn't even talk that much, well mostly because I ain't a master of Japanese and was shivering to death, but yet this was their first suggestion! Talking enjoying. Made me happy.