Fun Discoveries

Today was good, totally had to fight to stay awake in class today. For my history classes our teacher gives us study guides of multiple choice questions on it and it turns out that she takes directly from these guides to make her tests. This is good for us to study except that means we don't have to take a lot of notes because she already gives us all the information.

After class I hung around school and used the internet for a long time. I skyped with my parents for a long time which is cool and I got to talk to Katie for a while too. She made me laugh so much that I was totally busted by all of my other classmates who were in the same room. Then I went to the grocery store for some food and the usual stuff and then headed home.

So here everything seems a little different. For instance, the toilets. This is really weird; we're on a peninsula so they had water issues just like LA does. But every toilet has a little button on top that you push in and it's like a fountain. A flood of water comes pouring in from the side until the bowl is almost entirely full – very strange. Another thing that is weird for me is the light switches; instead of little switches like we have they are big squares on the wall. Every single room has its own light switch, including the majority of public restroom stalls. You also always need to check on the outside of the room for the light switch because that would be crazy to expect the room to have the switch on the inside.

Let's see…another fun thing. Their metro system is huge. So we get everywhere we want to go by taking the underground. It was hard to get used to in the beginning but now it's a lot easier to figure out where we need to go. The thing I like is on some of the modern trains there are no connecting doors between the cars, it is one huge open train. Pretty exciting to look down the train around a big turn – I learned that one from my dad. Whenever you want to get on or off at a station you have to press this glowing green button on the door to get the doors to open. It's very space age but was difficult for us to figure out the first few times.