Jan. 15th

Sorry I don't have a picture for you all today, maybe next time :P. These last couple weeks after New Years have been pretty quiet. It snowed a few times, and its supposed to snow again tonight, I think. On the Shimane Campus today they're holding college entrance exams for the high school students in the region. College entrance exams are a HUGE deal here. They cancelled a whole day of classes yesterday to prepare for it, and today the college students aren't even allowed to enter the campus for any reason, so as not to disturb the testing atmosphere. Japanese students study A LOT for these exams, and I've heard they're very difficult. I can only imagine its something like the ACTs or the SATs but with harder questions 0_o. From what I've heard though, from other Japanese people, high school in Japan is very hard and the students study a TON, but then once they get to college its a breeze. Braden admits that he gets very little homework and his classes aren't all that difficult, so it seems to be true. Braden said he got way more homework at CWU, and here he hasn't even had to take any tests. But I think those poor stressed out high school students deserve a break after studying every day and night for weeks for those college entrance exams :P. Hope everyone at home is doing well. Until next time :).