Back to school again...

Time to take a break from the summer trips and the "Dark Side of the Force" things. Classes started this week. Summer vacation is over and it was good while it lasted, but it's time to resume study.

The impressive thing is that, although I almost didn't study Japanese during vacation (and most conversations, I had were in Portuguese or English), I feel that it has improved. Strange, huh? One of my Japanese teachers also mentioned that. Guess it's time to quote one of my sisters: "you learn when you don't study"... I'm thinking about conceding that...

Back to the subject, classes started this Monday, but, oh, I don't have classes on Mondays... But I had some questions to the student affairs section and to the coordinator for international students. AND some things to post here and mails to answer...

Tuesday. First class of the second period. Nobody that I know in the same class... But I could understand a good part and the teacher seems quite nice. I have interest about the subject, also. Second class. This time I saw some familiar faces who told me that the teacher is said to be "kibishii" (severe/harsh). I wonder why... The only different thing I've noticed is that there'll be a small test after every class. Ah... that makes things a little difficult, but that's good to push myself (I'm becoming lazy here after vacations). I doubt that's only for that. Well, there's still plenty of time to figure it out.

Another class. This one a continuation of a first semester subject, so the students are mostly the same. And the teacher is nice.

Wednesday. Another class with the first tuesday' teacher. This time he didn't look so nice. Is it because it's a freshman laboratory class? (Actually we only use the computer in this one.) Guess so. After class (and a report...) he turned to his "previous" self. Later, Japanese class (yes, this is the only class I want to name for now) when we talked (and wrote a little) about our summer vacation (pretty original, huh? Not so simple to do in Japanese, though).

Today's class introduction was something I've heard many times during classes in Brazil. A little boring, but I think it'll get better (and harder) later.

And between classes I realized how many people I know already... People that I can call classmates, colleagues or friends... people from the same class, club, lab, other international students whom are good to meet again. And here I am getting off the topic again...

And after today's Japanese class Silvia and I were asked whether we could do a explanation about Brazil next month. The country's a little more popular now because of a NHK drama called "Haru to Natsu" (links with further explanations in Portuguese, English and Japanese) which has the emiration to Brazil during the... 30's I guess... as background (why the word "Terra Nostra" just came to my mind...?). And, even better for them, we are nikkeis (japanese descents). So we might have our ancestors' stories to tell...

Oh, and the class in which half of students usually fail that I mentioned when talking about my grades was the first tuesday class. I wonder whether it'll become impossible later or if I still may have some hope because the teacher changed from the previous year...