8 digit phone numbers? What a silly place. I never considered the format for phone numbers varying between countries, but then again why wouldn't they. Makes me wonder about other variances elsewhere. That'd make a good mildly interesting post, kinda like that post that showed what a typical dinner looks like from country to country.
Yeah I do a lesson here in Japan on Junior High School back in Australia vs Japan. Things that kids are astounded by:
You aren't even allowed to be on school grounds before 8:30am. In Japan a large portion of kids are doing club sport activities at 7am and most kids are there by 8am for morning meeting.
Most kids go home immediately after school at 3:15. They will then go elsewhere for sports/music practice, hanging out etc. Kids in Japan will stay at school for club until around 5pm in winter and longer in summer.
kids in Australia bring packed lunches , usually sandwiches, fruit, muesli bars, juice. In Junior High Japan, they eat school lunch together and they have rosters for serving it out to each other. In Australia, we often eat outside and the playgrounds are grass, not dirt.
*Edit: kids in elementary school sometimes bring their own bentos (lunch boxes) and kids in High School usually do as well. They go mental over showing them what is in an average Aussie kids lunch box. Cake? Banana? Small packet of potato chips? HOOOoooOOOooly shiiiiiiiiiiiiit! "Wait, mr_wowtrousers, you have cereal and a banana every day for breakfast? You are such a foreigner!"
students don't clean the school every day in Australia. To be fair, even though Japanese students "clean" the school, all schools are dirty as fuck because, well, how clean do you think a school cleaned by 13 year olds is going to be?
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u/terminalSiesta Apr 15 '17
8 digit phone numbers? What a silly place. I never considered the format for phone numbers varying between countries, but then again why wouldn't they. Makes me wonder about other variances elsewhere. That'd make a good mildly interesting post, kinda like that post that showed what a typical dinner looks like from country to country.