Seiritsu International Education

Ai's certificate for climbing up part of Tokyo Tower.

Hello everyone, my name is Ai. I have started my first year as a second year student at Seiritsu Gakuen. I came from New Zealand, but I was born in South Korea. During this year I hope I learn more about Japanese history, Japan's entertainment and of course Japanese. I have learnt Japanese for only 3 months and I am just starting to read some hiragana and katakana. I wish that I can read more than 100 Kanji at the end of my year in Japan!

I will never forget my first day in Japan. All students from Education First (EF exchange program) met at the Narita Airport after we arrived and when we were all together, we took the bus from Narita to a hotel in Shinagawa. It took about 3 hours. After arriving in our hotel, we had lunch and headed to Tokyo Tower. It was the first time that I went on the train!!! ... in Japan. When we arrived at Tokyo Tower, there was a really long, long line that we had to wait for to enter. While waiting, there was a monkey show next to the door, so all the students were watching and taking pictures.

Ai