{"id":145,"date":"2016-07-09T18:58:13","date_gmt":"2019-07-09T18:58:13","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2019-07-09T18:58:13","modified_gmt":"2019-07-09T18:58:13","slug":"04-08-the-first-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.genkijacs.mom\/blog\/04-08-the-first-week\/","title":{"rendered":"04\/08: The first week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><body><\/p>\n<div class=\"contenttitle\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"contentitem\">\n<div class=\"contentitem1\"><small class=\"contentitemcategory\">Category: <a href=\"index.php?catid=14\" title=\"Category: General\">General<\/a><\/small><\/div>\n<div class=\"contentitem2\"><small class=\"contentitempostedby\">Posted by: <a href=\"index.php?memberid=8\" title=\"Author: paulisaac\">paulisaac<\/a><\/small><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"contentbody\">Well I&#8217;ve finished the first week out of five of my classes. 25 hours of classes in five days, hours speaking in Japanese to my host family each day &#8211; it&#8217;s been pretty intense, but good. I have three different types of classes a day (one private) and different teachers are assigned to teach each class on different days. There doesn&#8217;t seem to be a problem for the teacher of each class to take up from where the last one left off, so I think that it&#8217;s a good way to help us maintain concentration during all of the classes. <\/p>\n<p> On Tuesday night one of my host sisters and a friend of hers took me to the big fireworks festival ({hanabi taikai{) in Fukuoka. The festival is held every year on the 1st of August. I haven&#8217;t seen such fireworks before in my life (although in Melbourne&#8217;s defence I did miss the fireworks during the Commonwealth Games closing ceremony this year). They were massive! There were complicated shapes and designs, including smiley faces. The display lasted 90 minutes and I heard that there was 6000 blasts or whatever you call them. 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