Posted by Cizeisojego on Mar 10, 2010 in
Sport Differences Between Australian and Japanese Schools
| Japan |
Australia |
| They wear casual clothes |
They have school uniform |
| They have squat toilets |
They have normal toilets |
| They give you school lunch |
You bring your own school lunch |
| You clean the school every day! |
Cleaners clean the school |
| School Hours:
Starts at 8:10 and ends at 4 – about 8 hours
I leave at 7 and return at 5 – about 10 hours |
School Hours:
Starts at 9 and ends at 3:30: about 6 hours
I leave at 8:45 and return at 3:45: 7 hrs |
| Everyone walks to and from school in special groups |
Everyone comes and goes by themselves, by all types of transport |
| There’s no food in the morning break |
Everyone had a snack at recess |
| Total break time is approximately 40 mins |
Total break time is approximately 1 1/2 hrs |
| You wear special indoor shoes inside |
Normal shoes |
| It takes ONE HOUR to get to school |
It was, like, 2 minutes ‘til school |
| Subjects:
Science
Japanese
Maths
English
Computers
Sport
Art
Music
Manual Arts (Woodworking etc)
Society
Civics and Citizenship
Home Economics
General Studies
Calligraphy
…And I’ve only been at my Japanese school for a week, so I’m sure there’ll be more subjects coming! |
Subjects:
Inquiry Based Learning (PYP)
English
Maths
Italian
Computers
Sport
Art
Music |
| There are no computers in the classrooms |
They have computers in the classrooms |
| Toilet slippers |
Toilet WHAT?!?! |
| They have a sports uniform |
They don’t have a sports uniform |
| You get a lot of homework |
You barely get any homework |
| There’s a bottle of sanitiser in every room |
There is no sanitiser to be found |
| There are six periods in a school day |
Periods are a humble-jumble and are subject to change randomly |
| At TV in every classroom |
No TVs in the classrooms |
Posted by Cizeisojego on Mar 5, 2010 in
School Aloha y’all! Da Capp is back! And she’s gettin’ good in da kitchen!!!
To explain that drastic intro……..today at school we had bento making. (Bento is Japanese lunch, you know with all the rice and vegies all and stuff all put together beautifully in a little box.) This was a big step for Planet RubyRox, as my previous cooking repertoire extended to cheese toast. But it was still fun. I made the bento in with my seating group. I helped make fried egg, potato salad, and asparagus thingys wrapped in ham. Oh and weeeeeeeeenerrrrssss. AKA weeners. It was SEW much fun darlinks. You had to wear an apron, which was a slightly inconvenient as my friends all got around in uber-cute designer aprons, while I was stuck with my cream-coloured namby-pamby get-up with boats on it. BOATS I tell you. Oh, well. I wore a Dad’s handkerchief as my headgear, so I looked like that Heidi girl, which got everyone off on a “OMG you’re so cute Ruby” (in Japanese) fest. 
Well. I have stoyle (sic)…………..:P
I then felt rather ill after lunch, after the bento and school lunch, including 3 bowls of soup and 2 cartons of milk :OOOOOOOO
Hey, I was hungry, all right?!
Tata for now,,,,
The team at RubyRox
(Teams can be one person, can’t they??)
XOXOXOXOXOXOXOXO
Posted by rubyrox on Mar 1, 2010 in
Sport Well, I’m here, and I’ve settled in. Stuff writing about this stupid blog. Hold on peeps until I can think of something remotely interesting to write.
Toodlas for now,
Ruby x
Tags: poo
Posted by Cizeisojego on Jan 22, 2010 in
Sport This post covers everything that`s happened in Japan. Bear with me, folks, it`s gonna be long!!!
Monday
Ok…first up, on Monday night, we stayed at a hotel lodge thingy near the airport. My two friends Tess and Helena saw me off, which was fantastic. (I`d like to make it sound all dramatic like they waved me off while the plane took off, which is what most people are under the impression of due to some accidental dramatising, but still; it was the next best thing.) That was at about 11 at night, as I`d played with them the whole day.
Tuesday
Early – VERY early morning for me, mum and Felix (Dad had already left for Japan on the 10th) – 4 o`clock early!!! I was so very incredibly tired. Then straight onto a 6 o`clock plane to the Gold Coast, where we stopped for a few hours, relaxing in the Jetstar Gold Coast Lounge (I know, right?! Jetstar?? WOW), which was pretty luxurious. I had a buffet breakfast and chilled.
TO BE CONTINUED 
Posted by Cizeisojego on Dec 12, 2009 in
Bad thing!!!,
Fully sick events,
School,
Sport WOW I came second in a karate comp.
WOWx2 Graduaton is inn 2 days!! (Weep, weep.)
WOWx3 I love the 5/6 Class movie!!!!
Ruby
Posted by fhghhyfg on Sep 19, 2009 in
Sport I Love Pon and Zi (ponandzi.com), these two adorable emo characters (well, Zi is a bit mean, but still).
Anyway, here I am haplessly trying to embed the ‘Are You Pon or Zi?’ quiz. [Note to reader: it didn't work. It just tells you my result.]
| Are you Pon or Zi?
Your Result: You are Zi!
Congrats! Your Zi. You like pretending to be a ninja and eating the heads of gummi bears. You don’t like spiders or cats but no worries ur loved one is always there to help. speaking of loved ones, ur deeply in love with them and they make u soo happy that sometimes ur heart even bleeds.
|
| You are Pon! |
|
Are you Pon or Zi?
Quiz Created on GoToQuiz |
HOLIDAYS HERE WE COME!@!!!!!!!!!
Ruby
xx
Posted by fhghhyfg on Sep 15, 2009 in
Breaking news,
Fully sick events,
School OMG!!!!!!! Last night was the school concert!!! You know the one I told you about a few months earlier with the seven Dorothys?!?!!?!?!?! I was SO nervous. My cousin and Aunt also came to see me. I sang ‘Over the Rainbow’…so nerve racking…
Our concert was an adaption of ‘The Wizard of Oz’; it was really cool. All the classes did their own singing and dancing item, and as usual, the year 6s (that’s me, by the way) got the main parts. We didn’t get much time to practice, but we did really well, excluding long breaks between scenes and a few fluff-ups. Still. A great year. We took some photos with the came of me in my dress, I’ll upload the l8er (I’m @ skool now). There were also professional photographers there to take pictures of the show, and induvidual ones for the 6s. I hope I get good ones; I have a feeling I might get a dodgy of og me mid-sentence, eyes closed, looking spaz. But let’s be positive..
I’m kind of drowsy now, but yeah. It was fantastic fun. I can’t believe all that planning and rehearsals and excitement, and now it’s all over!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Now I have skool camp to look forward to next. AHHH!!!!!!! We need 2 plan red faces……It’s @ Anglesea. I’ll keep you posted.
BTW I didn’t make it through the state futsal trials. I was in the top 17..:(:(:(:( Well it was to be expected so I’m not sad or anything. I didin’t care at all!
Well, bye for now.
Rubyyyy xx
P.S. I’m feeling STUPIDSTUPIDSTUPID because today, just before I started bloging this, I got two spam comments. Usually as all the comments I get are spam, I just delete them all. But lately my friend Tessie had added some comments BUT I DELETED THEM ALL!!!!!!!!!! SHE WAS SO NICE AND NOW I AM BACK TO ZERO COMMENTS!!! AHHHHH!!!!
Over.
Posted by fhghhyfg on Sep 4, 2009 in
Sport Hey!!! Yesterday we had the district athletics at Sandringham Reserve. It was a real nice day. (Like my old-style ’slang’?) I came fifth in triple jump and out relay team came fifth. ***May i point out that in my last three years in the districts triple jump, I have come 1st, then 3rd, then 5th?! Proggressively worse. 
:(:(. My last year and all…
Well, the school concert is coming up. I’m really nervous. Sorry I can’t write more, but I’m awfully busy. (Fine. Just busy.)
Ruby xx
PS Check out my new album!
Posted by fhghhyfg on Aug 24, 2009 in
Sport OMG!!! It’s incredilbe! I made the first futsal trials! OMG! That was completely unexpected. Unfortunately, this means I have another flat-out weekend: Saturday; Japanese School, Parent-Teacher Interviews, go home, straight to faraway futsal trials, come back, straight to karate friend’s house for a sleepover, Sunday; next morning straight to karate competition with karate friend, straight to soccer game against Pascoe Vale, then home to make soap for my friend and I’s awesome homemade brand Enlightened (look, it our stuff, we can endorse it)……
So tired. Well, got to go,
Ruby
xx
Posted by fhghhyfg on Aug 24, 2009 in
Bad thing!!!,
School Hellohello, Ruby C is back again after another horrid spurt of unwilingness to blog. I do have quite a bit of news! As I’m sure you know, I am Dorothy 1 in the school play. Also, I am in Tournament of the Minds competition with schoolmates EllaB, Siggy, Steph, EllaM, Izzy and Zoe. I desperately wanted to be in a group with my even better, best friends Chiara, Samadhi and Tess, but unfortunately bad things* happened and i ended up with my other good friends. That’s not as good because I’m not in a class with any of my besties!!! Oh well, my fault.
Ruby
xx
*For more information, ask my manager. 