避難訓練 (Fire drill)

Today we had a fire drill at our international dormitory. At 9:30 there announced for the imaginative fire on the third floor and everyone had to go outside where there were two firemen waiting for us. The floor leaders checked if everyone from their floors had come and then we practiced to use the fire extinguishers. A row at a time had to scream "kaji" (fire), grab the extinguishers and spout water. I was one of the "lucky" eight people who got to do the second round and empty the whole extinguisher.

The second part of the drill was to see how to use the long water hoses inside the dorm. It was kind of funny when the fire fighters chose to students to try it and they asked their nationality and found out they both were Japanese. The last part was to see the CPR method and a short video about how to prevent fires. The announcement in the beginning was made both in Japanese and in English but after that all the instructions were given only in Japanese. Kind of interesting from the view of a foreigner who cannot understand everything in Japanese but at least I know they would probably announce something in English if there ever will be a fire here.

During this week finally all the first year students needed to choose their genre groups in the dance circle of the university. That means that now also I can fully concentrate on locking. Me and my Taiwanese friends who also joined the circle got a little bit surprised when our group leader sent a message this week to the locking group chat on Line. She informed us that there will be a late time trainings n two Mondays of this month, starting at midnight in a place far from the university. We were not sure what that was so we asked our senpai (a person who is more experienced compared to us) at the Thursday's training. He explained it is for locking people and that it lasts until 5 a.m and that it would be good to go there. Well, I happen to have no lessons on Tuesday but my friend has. So she sent a message to our leader telling that unfortunately she cannot join the night training because of the long Tuesday school day. The leader just answered that if my friend cannot join either of the night trainings, she should quit. We got so surprised and realized our circle is much more strict than it had seemed so far. Oh dear me... I hope to survive there. Now I am alone there since my friend really quit. I hope there are not many surprises like that coming in the future.

I like walking next to the sports field after dancing.

Yesterday evening some of the European exchange students went for izakaya. It had been long time for me not going to one. We had also one Korean student and our lovely exchange coordinator from our university with us. We had talked many times with the coordinator that she should go out with us one time and finally it became true. Too many times Japanese people just thank for the invitation and tell that they are a bit busy or something but they actually never plan to meet. But this time we saw they can also really mean that they will join one day.

Many workers cleaning the campus area. It is important to collect all the fallen leaves.

This would not happen in Finland.

We had our grammar lesson in a different room this week.
The teacher even let us to play with the screens in the beginning of the class.

The school lunch options just seem so much more interesting than in Finland.