First day's fatigue

The first day is over, and what I feel right now is "it's quite challenging"

Although I graduated YUELI (Language school attached to York), taking language courses are different from taking actual university courses just because teachers don't pay attention to terms that ELL might feel difficult and they're focusing on contents rather than the language itself. 

In order to understand what they're talking about in classes, I do need to exposed in English speakers so that I can learn from them.

Kazu, one of my friends, taught me before that it's better to have courses that you have some background knowledge, and now I think it's very true. Even though I have learned education (very generally) so far, it was quite difficult to catch up what other students are talking about in an education class. One good thing is that classmates look really positive and welcoming. Since I do need help to understand the contents to contribute the discussion or group works, next time I'll try to make friends more~~.

 

As for Chinese class, at first glance, I felt like "Oh, I might be in the wrong place" in terms of my writing class. Being Japanese is quite a big advantage to learn Chinese, for already knowing a lot of Chinese characters. 

"Do I have to practice how to write Chinese character???"

"I wanna focus more on the conversation practiceeeeee"

These were my honest opinions; but by the end of the course, I found that was the right place to be in since the course covers all the 4 skills of Chinese eventually.

What teacher doesn't speak English like Native speakers makes me nervous because I cannot be sure what she explains. But more than that, my goal here is to master Chinese by the end of this course to communicate with Chinese people. It is really important for me to understand how Chinese people think. 

 

Okay. 

I'm not super tired, but I do feel a bit of fatigue. 

This is the beginning of this big challenge. Don't procrastinate my tasks, be strict in a good way.