Aktivitas Siswa di Jepang (English version)

Daily Activities Students in Japan

What time does school activities begin?

School learning activities in Japan usually starts at 08:50. Maybe for us it was already too late, is not it? But students in Japan must be prepared from early in the morning. Just like us, some of them were on foot, by bus, train, or riding a bike.

Why do Japanese students enter school at 8:50? Apparently, in Japan at 7 am is not too bright, like the dawn of time in Indonesia. Indeed, at 7 pm instead still bright.

 

Usually when free on the train or bus, they are listening to music or reading a book. Reading a novel is one of the habits of students in Japan.

According to them, the school is far does not matter, the important thing was good and quality schools. To demonstrate the reputation of the school, the students even asked not to read, chew gum, and eating on the go.

On arrival at school, they will keep her shoes on the shoe lockers and replace it with a special shoe that is used in the classroom (uwabaki).

What are the activities of Japanese students in school?

Before starting classes, students in Japan usually greets first. Chairman of the class or the teacher say 'kiritsu' (standing) and 're' (bowing).

Core curriculum high school in Japan is the Japanese language as the national language. Other subjects are English, Mathematics, exact (Chemistry, Biology, Physics, etc.) and Sociology (social Science, Japan History, World History, Economics Government, etc.). There was also a Sport, 'ongaku' (Music), 'bijutsu' (Fine Art), and 'shodo' (the art of Japanese calligraphy), and there is also a cooking class and also taught how to make clothes.

Japanese schools have only one foreign language lessons, namely English. All students using electronic dictionary (Denshi Jisho). Not only English, Japanese language feels easier when using a dictionary.

In each school usually has a gymnasium, school pages, and its own swimming pool. Sports hall and swimming pool is used when there is gym class volleyball, basketball, soccer, and swimming.

When the break

At the break usually Japanese students bring lunch they bring from home. Packed lunch they carry are made by their mother or make your own, there is also a buy in the cafeteria at school. Classrooms can also be a place to eat other than the cafeteria. And o-bento brought by the Japanese students usually zoom unique! As this example:

After School 

Teaching and learning activities ended more than 16.00. Before going home, they first clean the classroom. There are cleaning the blackboard, sweep, wash the floor, etc. Then replace their shoes that had been stored in a locker.
After the lesson is finished, there is a follow extracurricular activities (which consists of sports clubs and culture clubs, etc.), there is also a follow tutoring / extra lessons outside of school, where the guidance is called 'juku'.
Japanese students are very dense activities

Children who follow the guidance of this study were mostly children class III (Class XII), which will follow the semester exams and preparation for entry into college. In Japan, there is no NATIONAL EXAM, SLC School, or Practice Exams. Thus, students who have managed to take the test to get into college, college names will be announced on the bulletin board in the Juku.

When they arrived at Home

Arriving at the house, they have dinner with family and bath. Before going to bed, they check and reply to e-mail, listen to music and re-learned for 1 hour or even more. Then they sleep at about 01:00 at night.

Bed at 1:00, then when the morning wake up again around 06.00, and it almost every day, really tiring. But education in Japan, very advanced.
No National Exam, so after the completion of their semester exams can directly follow the college entrance test.