Meeting the Nursing students

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"Nursing school" is for Nurses, not "Nursery school" which is for Kids


So, I met elementary school students, High school students, and today I met some university students that don't really have international students. The school happens to be Eisei Kano Daigaku, which to English was translated as "Akita Hygine and Nursing school". A few things about Eisei Kano, first of all being a nursing school its 99% girls, it has somewhere between 100-200 students, and its located in Yokote city, about 1 hour drive away from AIU. We were actually told that the school was only recently moved to a new building in Yokote (maybe 2 years ago), and actually used to be located in Akita City.

We were invited to come by Naganuma-Sensei, the school's English and international communications professor. After the 10 of us took the 1 hour drive in a mini-bus we were met by the first of two groups. The first group we met were "Senpai", or upperclassmen. The students were extremely outgoing and eager to meet us (the professor actually later told me, that they were more outgoing then usual). The class had less then 20 students by the way. The teacher gave us a format to follow, but we did not stick to it, the high school students could use this format, I had not issue talking for 1 hour and a half to these guys.

We were given a 10 minute break before meeting some of the Junior students for another 1.5 hours. I enjoyed both of my conversations, but..some of the students in the junior group made a more lasting impression on me. The junior group was much bigger with 38 students, in the senior group I was talking to 3 students, here there were 6. What was the conversation? its funny when this happens, you have a great conversation with someone, yet for the life of me can't remember what it was about. Its almost like an adrenalin rush, I know I talked about the countries I went to, and playing the piano, and some other things. Eventually the teacher gave us a board game of sorts, pretty much you rolled a dice and moved our pawns. Each place had a question sort of "Typical breakfast", "Childhood trip", "High School memory". Probably the most interesting one that everyone ended up landing on was "First Love". Well, we all found some silly childhood story to tell about that one, actually one of the girls named Shizuka, told the funniest story that she confessed she loved someone when she was 4, and the guy did not feel the same way. Later she came up with a Kanji spelling for my name, yay! Hopefully I'll figure out how to type it, but its 3 Kanji, Asian-Traveler-Dream.

I ended up giving away two remaining gifts that I brought from the states. Note about Japan, you can never bring enough gifts here. Me and the other AIU international students ended up being waved Good-Bye by a huge crowd of students who looked like they were ready to cry. So, it was great fun, and with the AIU Halloween party tonight it might not be over yet!