Can you imagine how much money we need.
Feb 07th 2012 18:57
Every day I learned English at the language school like a possessed person by something. Soon I realized that many Japanese students' bad hobit. They always nod in spite of the fact that they did not really understand what teachers said. This stupid habit pissed me off. So every time I did not understand something, definitely I asked a teacher about my questions. This habit might have pissed other Japanese students off as well. Sometimes some Japanese students glared at me fiercely. They must have thought "Don't disturb our lesson." But I didn't mind it at all because I paid this school a lot of money so I had the right to learn every thing I needed regarding English from teachers.
Seiji the Japanese student who studied English hard there was supposed to have dinner with his Korean friends near the language school. He invited me. I respected him since he was very hardworking. So although I was not sure how well I could understand Korean students in English, I joined it.
At a Korean restaurant, Seiji told me that he used an agency to booked the language school(For five months) and an air ticket(From Tokyo to Sydney) and the agency introduced a landlord to him. But he paid the agency around 16K. I was fucking suprised. In my case, I did every thing by myself.
Airplane ticket 900 dollars
Language school(For 3 month) 4K
House(For 1 month) 1K
....The total was around 6K....
Why the heck did he leave everything to the agency. Most Japanese people are monolingual, so these dishonest agencies always take advantage of poor ignorant Japanese students. There were no reliable organizations we could count on in a foreign country. We had to be very vigilant. Australia was a good country but I began to dislike this country due to lazy Japanese students and some dishonest organizations. Sydney was the nest of these dishonest Japanese people.
I didn't say to him how much I spent to come to Australia because I didn't want to make him unhappy.
Anyway even though we were not native English speakers, we could understand each other to some extent.
...I hope I will visit Australia as a just tourist someday.
Seiji the Japanese student who studied English hard there was supposed to have dinner with his Korean friends near the language school. He invited me. I respected him since he was very hardworking. So although I was not sure how well I could understand Korean students in English, I joined it.
At a Korean restaurant, Seiji told me that he used an agency to booked the language school(For five months) and an air ticket(From Tokyo to Sydney) and the agency introduced a landlord to him. But he paid the agency around 16K. I was fucking suprised. In my case, I did every thing by myself.
Airplane ticket 900 dollars
Language school(For 3 month) 4K
House(For 1 month) 1K
....The total was around 6K....
Why the heck did he leave everything to the agency. Most Japanese people are monolingual, so these dishonest agencies always take advantage of poor ignorant Japanese students. There were no reliable organizations we could count on in a foreign country. We had to be very vigilant. Australia was a good country but I began to dislike this country due to lazy Japanese students and some dishonest organizations. Sydney was the nest of these dishonest Japanese people.
I didn't say to him how much I spent to come to Australia because I didn't want to make him unhappy.
Anyway even though we were not native English speakers, we could understand each other to some extent.
...I hope I will visit Australia as a just tourist someday.
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Pretty damn good, I gotta say.
Traveling and living abroad always rapes your wallet.
Food in Australia is ridiculously expensive.
Only cheap thing is milk.
ahah~
Every day I studied English... [I prefer "studied" because it implies effort on your part. Learning doesn't always take effort.]
Soon I noticed a bad habit of many of the Japanese students.
They always nodded in spite of the fact that they did not really understand what the teachers said. ["Nod" and "understand" have to be in the same tense.]
So every time I did not understand something, I definitely asked a teacher about it.
Sometimes some of them glared at me fiercely.
...to learn everything I needed regarding English from teachers.
One day, Seiji, [<-- (,)] a Japanese student who studied English hard there, [<-- (,)] was supposed to have dinner with his Korean friends near the language school.
At a Korean restaurant, Seiji told me that he used an agency to book the language school (for five months) and a plane ticket (from Tokyo to Sydney) and the agency introduced a landlord to him.
In my case, I did everything by myself.
Language school (for 3 months) 4K
Housing (for 1 month) 1K ["House" makes me think of actually buying a house permanently.]
I didn't tell him how much I spent...
I hope I will visit Australia as just a tourist someday.
How about "room" ?