I've now been to school for 3 days (although one of those days was an excursion), and I'm really surprised about how different the school system is. When I was in Japan last year I went to school for two weeks and I thought that that was different, but this is in a whole new league. First of all, it's no where near as strict as in Australia. You call your teachers by their first name, there are no uniforms, and in most of the classes you are basically left to your own devices, so if you don't want to work, you don't have to. Most people do though, which I think's pretty interesting. Also, you can just walk out of the class whenever you want, you can eat in class, and you can go outtside
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