Seiritsu International Education

Hello. My name is Nicolas, I’m 16 years old、I'm from Stenloese, which is a town in Denmark, about 30 minutes from Copenhagen.

In my spare time I play soccer or just hang out with friends. Right now I don’t really read manga but my host brother reads a lot of manga and talks about it all the time, so I think I’m going to read manga as well, and it’s a more fun way to get confident with hiragana, katakana and kanji instead of sitting and working in a textbook for hours.

I recently finished middle school, and didn’t want to start at a Danish high school straight away, so I decided to study abroad for a year.

The reason why I chose Japan is that I got family here, my uncle moved out here 20 years ago, and is now married to a Japanese woman and has 3 kids. Another reason why I chose Japan is that it is not common in Denmark to be able to speak Japanese, so it might be able to help me to get some great jobs in the future. So my “school goals” are to be good at talking and writing/reading Japanese, and to improve my English, because the school offers high level English as well.

One thing I especially like about Japan is that the trains always are on time, in Denmark the trains are about 10 minutes late all time. Last year I went to Japan on holiday, but that was only as a tourist, so I didn’t understand anything at all. But now I have been studying Japanese for about a year, and it’s totally different because now I’m paying attention to all the commercials on the trains and sometimes I can even understand them.

I’m looking forward to having an awesome year at Seritsu Gakuen!
Nicolas Kjeldsen.