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cecilia
posted 07 August 2000 12:21 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for cecilia   Click Here to Email cecilia     Edit/Delete Message Reply w/Quote
Have you come to study in Australia from another country?

Tell us about your home and your school.

What is different about studying in Australia?

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fuffy
posted 07 August 2000 02:14 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for fuffy   Click Here to Email fuffy     Edit/Delete Message Reply w/Quote
I have a Chinese student staying at my house at the moment. Her name is Ann or in China it is An Na. She comes from a school in Beijing.

She likes chicken but dislikes noodles. She gets along very well with my family. My sister teases her. I really enjoy having her around.

Fuffy

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amy
posted 07 August 2000 02:52 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for amy   Click Here to Email amy     Edit/Delete Message Reply w/Quote
There are a lot of differences between China and Australia.

At school we have more rules than Australia. When we answer teacher questions we have to stand up and answer is in a very loud voice so that the teacher can hear and all the students can hear it because we have forty-five students in our class. We have to be quiet when it is class time. Our classroom must very quiet. We can't eat or drink in the classroom. We have to keep it clean. We can't walk around the class when it is class time.

We have ten periods per day and forty minutes per period. School is from 7.30am to 4.45pm. I live at my school. I usually get up at 6.10 in the morning and we only have 35 minutes for lunch and go to bed at 9.30pm. I go home on the weekends.

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~Ann~
posted 07 August 2000 02:54 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for ~Ann~   Click Here to Email ~Ann~     Edit/Delete Message Reply w/Quote
I am a girl. I am come from China. I am thirteen years old. I was born in BeiJing.
I will stay here for three weeks. I am so glad here.

I have a big family. I have three brothers and one sister. My old brother is sixteen years old. He studies in high school. He likes to play computer games very much,so do I.

The other brother likes maths. His maths is so good. So, my mother usually asks me to study him.

My little brother likes football. He likes playing and watching football, but I don't like it.

My little sister likes playing and eating. She can play anything. Anywhere she also can play. My sister likes eating. So do I. We like eating a lot of food,like meat, milk, beef, chicken. My sister doesn't like eating vegetables, but I like them.

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Stacy
posted 07 August 2000 02:56 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Stacy   Click Here to Email Stacy     Edit/Delete Message Reply w/Quote
I am a student from China. I lived in Beijing. I am twelve years old. I will study here for three weeks.

There are three people in my family. I have two chicks at home. I have some flowers at home. I study in China Beijing Foreign Language School. I am in Grade One.

There are some differences between China and here. We walk and drive on the right, but we walk and drive on the left here.

There are lots of people in China, but there are so little people here. There are many many bikes in China, but there are many many cars here. In Beijing, the streets are like a board, but there are so many corners here. If I walk here, I'll lose my way.

We often drink running water here, but in China, we put water in the pot and then boil.

The school where we study here is very big. The school is very beautiful. It is a high school, when we are twelve, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, we study in a high school. In China, when we are twelve, thirteen, fourteen, we go to a mid-school.The teacher and the classmates here are very friendly to us. I like this school.


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glitter_gal83
posted 14 August 2000 12:26 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for glitter_gal83     Edit/Delete Message Reply w/Quote
I am a student at Ogilvie High, but in January I spent three months in Japan, studying at Mejiro Gakuen School. It was a huge culture shock, but I had a fantastic time.

I found that the study day was very complicated. There were 6 periods, or units, and there were ten minutes break between each class. There were two classes then recess, two classes then lunch and then two classes at the end of the day.

In home room after school we had to help our class mates clean the classroom. Sometimes we even had to clean other rooms. For example I had to clean science rooms occasionally.

The students study extremely hard and more often than not they stay up till two or three in the morning studying. My host sister spent sometime in her Japanese class sleeping, and most students slept in assemblies.

Overall I had a fabulous time and I would love to go back there for a holiday sometime to visit my friends.

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Magicstar101
posted 14 August 2000 12:34 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Magicstar101   Click Here to Email Magicstar101     Edit/Delete Message Reply w/Quote
Hi
I recently studied in Japan for three months.
While I was over there I found everything to be very different than in Australia.
I have read what the girls from Beijing said and the school wasn't as strict as the one in China. Our day in Tokyo went from 8.30am until 3.30pm. We had to catch a bus then train to school.
The study was quite difficult as we had to work very hard so that we could learn as much Japanese as possible. We would be given homework one day and it was expected to be done that same night. The homework did pay off in the end as all of us came back knowing a lot more Japanese than we went with.
My favourite thing about the experience was all the friends I made from different countries. We made friends from Japan and we also made friends with people from Canada as they were there at the same time.

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jelly baby
posted 15 August 2000 11:46 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for jelly baby   Click Here to Email jelly baby     Edit/Delete Message Reply w/Quote
I recently traveled to Japan,and studied in Meijro Gakuen. Meijro is one of or sister schools. At the moment I'm attending Ogilvie High School. As 2 other people said, we all had a culture shock.
I was the youngest one to travel there alone and I was very home sick.But when I met my home stay I was fine once again. Soon as I steped into Meijro School grounds I saw once again the 2 student I had hosted in Tasmania. It was like seeing longh lost family. I also met Akari the one I stayed with in Japan on the trip the took to come and play at or previous Taste of Ogilvie.

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maggie
posted 21 August 2000 03:11 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for maggie   Click Here to Email maggie     Edit/Delete Message Reply w/Quote
Dear Reader,
I have a Chinese student she is really nice, her English is fantastic!
We get along great. I know all the numbers from one to 9000 now in Chinese, and other small words. Where she comes from is not that different, some things are though which you have to put up with. It will be very sad when they go because they are really nice, caring and wonderful girls.
cheers maggie

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candy
posted 27 July 2001 10:02 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for candy     Edit/Delete Message Reply w/Quote
I come from Taiwan,in the school every day have some home work to do,In Australia I'm very free I think I will stay at Australia forever bye bye.eek!

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