Hola! (or I should probably be saying Konichiwa!)
So I’ve been really busy this week. I’ve been scouring my way through many books on Japan. The one I am currently reading is called Japan Made Easy. Haha, yeah right… I feel so unprepared. I’ll definitely try my best though.
Anyway, since I have been so busy I didn’t get to tell you that I went to a luncheon hosted by Chevron for all of the scholarship recipients in my area!
It was pretty interesting. The night before the luncheon my dad took me out and bought me some fancy (but not too fancy) clothes so I could wear something nice. :) I’m glad he did because there was not one person there wearing jeans.
The funny thing was that there were only three YFU students there. All of the rest were REACH scholarship recipients, which is a college scholarship. The whole time people were coming up to me and my parents, asking which college I will be going to and what I’m going to major in. Eventually, we all made introductions over the microphone but not before I repeated the message a thousand times. Haha. I was pretty amazed when the introductions started. All of the students in that room must have had a 4.0 or higher. The schools they were naming off were top of the line (Harvard, Princeton, UCLA). It kind of made me feel special that I got to be there too. Not only was there a lot of brain power in the room, the chairman of Chevron came and made a speech. Talk about feeling special… I mean to top it all off they had strawberry shortcake!
It was a good day. :)
Cloud 13
14 years ago
That's awesome :]and mmm strawberry shortcake!
ReplyDeleteI'm reading up on Japan, too. There's so much to retain about their culture and how they do things, I don't know if I can remember it all.. I'm afraid that I'll really screw something up with my american way of thinking.
Were the introductions easy? I'm realllly bad at talking in front of groups.
Piece of cake :) For some reason I am better at making introductions in front of people I don't know. Lol. I just kept mine short. That way you don't have a lot of time to mess up. You'll do great.
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