Enrollment and Placement Test...

This is the School building. Besides hosting the Language school, it hosts a medical School as well.

The appointment for all students was at 9.30 at the 9th Floor. There we had to register our name, and we were give a tag with a letter and white paper to write our name. I got Letter "B". Firstly puzzled on the meaning and why people were assigned either "A", "B" or "C", it became clear later.

After signing in we were introduced to the school Manager, Staff and students. We took the entrance picture and we got a tour of the facilities.

Here we found out what the assigned letters meant. "A" was for chinese speaking and "B" for English and other languages speaking people. No idea about the "C" one, but i guess it was chinese, too.

The total new students were about 40 people. 80% was from either China or Taiwan. 4 people from Thailand, 1 from Iran and me and another guy that probably comes from either europe or USA.

During the tour we were shown where to park bycicles, were to get lunch (Students get a 50% off discount on the building restaurant on the ground floor, apparently you can get as much rice and bread as you want with your meal.

Then we got down to real business. The placement test (!) ... Written and Spoken Japanese. Even i passed my JPLT Level 4 test in 2007 (thanks to Shoko-Sensei) i merely practiced for taking the test. I can recognize Hiragana and Katakana and some Kanji, but that's about it. I can tell you what i had for breakfast or that is nice weather. The Test was quite difficult, so i must say it was turned in almost blank.

I just hope i can be placed not in the real beginner class, but at least in a upper beginner not to go thru again with all the basic alphabet...

Tomorrow at 9.50 AM we will know the class assignement...