Seniors? Juniors??

I take back my tweet saying that I wanna go and dream now.
Before going to sleep, I would like to update a lil bit of my rusty blog here.
It has been almost 2 weeks I came to Japan. And frankly speaking, I think that I had a culture shock.I don't wanna admit it at first. But after a while, I cannot deny the fact that I HAVE HAD A CULTURE SHOCK.

The culture shock I'm talking is not about food nor fashion culture. It's their culture's culture. Do you get what I mean? I'm sounding weird right here. Sorry, I couldn't find any other suitable word to replace it. I'll tell you why i got he shock. I think everyone knows that Japanese is a very polite and highly civilize society right? They respect the elders and seniors. But I never thought that it would have to be SO SO SO respectful to the elders.

In my hostel, we have grade 1 to grade 5 girls living here. Every time when the juniors meet the seniors, they have to give greeting "ohayo gozaimasu", or "konbanwa" or "konnichiwa" to the seniors. Even though they greeted already,but once I pass by that place again, they'll greet again. Although I think that it's very polite to do so, but is it necessary to greet so many times? Even I feel tired to reply the greet and nod my head.

And if a bunch of juniors greet you, can you imagine the wavelength of the noise produce? No wonder people say that Japan is somewhat a noisy country.

The status between senior and junior is very clearly divided. Junior has to treat senior with FULL respect and no objection towards senior's order. For the Malaysian, I think most of the junior and senior are just likenfriends right? No gap or status difference at all. But over here, in canteen, we even have to eat at the table according to our grade. The fifth grader get to sit nearest to the tv while the first grader sit at the last row, the furtherst from the tv. In hostel, if junior see any senior who wanna open the front door, they will open it for you.

Every night, we have to clean up the bathroom and Ofuro.(public bath)And this week, I'm in charge of cleaning it. After cleaning the Ofuro, the senior ask the junior to open and hold the door to let the senior exit. I was like "huh? Open the door only wor... Sendiri Boleh buka kan??" but that is the culture and that is the rule.

I'm so lucky to come in as the third grader. Or else I will have to RESPECT each of the younger seniors(the japanese first grader are only 15)

That's all I wanna say for now.. If there's any error, spare me.. I didn't recheck cz I dun like to blog with phone.. Good night guys! Will be back with more updates! :)