Takumi

Diary of the TIS Sumer School

Monday, June 20, 2011
Today was the first day of summer school and we ended up in the gym. I was wandering if there were any unfamiliar faces, new people coming to the summer school of 2011 and there was one girl, who I didn't know. I thought that this summer school would be boring, with lots of lessons, but later on the day, I found out that it was more fun. My first impression when I went into the gym was the amount of kindergarten and elementary children there. There were only 10 middle schoolers, and over 50 elementary. This surprised me, but it was nice meeting a couple of my good friends. The first lesson was Japanese, and I was happy that all the different levels was in one class. Gerard and I had been chosen into groups and we planned to make a video, as an interview. I was impressed by the amount of japanese Gerard could speak. He told me that he was in the lowest level, which meant that he could only speak a little japanese, but when we were planning for the interview, I realized that he could speak quite a lot. I had fun with the other lessons such as p.e and music. During music, we learn't how to use the garage band, with advanced skills. I was impressed that garage band could have many advanced skills that I think professionals use. I learn't a lot, and this lesson was one of the most interesting lessons for monday. English and math went by fast for me. I was happy that we could relax a bit, more than normal school. During math, we had sometime to play on the ipad, and I played some math quiz, which was interesting. I also revised some of the math processes we did during the whole school year, which was good, because I had forgotten a few things. My impression for the first day was that I was surprised that there were only a few middle schoolers, and that the lessons went normally with japanese, math, english, music and pe. Because it was my first day, I had thought that we were just going to play and have fun but it wasn't like that. We had normal lessons, but in a relaxing way.

Wednesday, June 22, 2011
We went on a field trip to "Aquarink", where we all ice skated. This was the third time that I went ice skating. The weather was very warm, and it was over 30 degrees celsius, the hottest this year. Aquarink is in Chiba so it took us over one hour to get there. When we go to the ice skating rink, we all put on our shoes, which I knew how to do, but I had to help others. My first thought was, "Its freezing!", because the outside was hot and the inside was cold, in the rink. I first had a lot of trouble skating, and I fell a couple of times. The ice was cold, but it was fun sliding on the ground. I saw other beginners falling on the ground, and I laughed at a few people, because it was really funny when they fell. After lunch, I got better at skating, getting hang of it, but I did fall a several times because the ice was more slippery.