1. Introduction
2. At least 3 paragraphs
3. Conclusion
4. Writing
5. Check for errors
I was attending a school called St. Paul Lutheran Church while living in Texas for about five and a half years. As you can see from the name of the school, the school I attended was a Christian school(although I'm not christian). So I think my kind of school has even more differences to Japanese schools than regular schools with no religion. In this essay, I'm going to compare St. Paul to the elementary school I went to before coming to SFC.
The biggest difference between the school I go to now and then, is that the school in Texas had a church and the school in Japan that I attended did not. St. Paul Lutheran Church had chapels at the church there every Friday of the week, and we had to bring offerings every time it was held. I don't know about the Christian schools in Japan, but as far as I know, the school I attended didn't have this kind of ceremony every week so it gave me quite a surprise.
Another difference between the school in America and the school in Japan, is that American schools use mostly white boards while Japanese schools use mostly blackboards. I don't really know why Japanese schools use these black boards because the chalk makes your hands dirty and the dust makes you cough.
Finally, the last difference I'm going to write about is that in America, students didn't have to clean their classrooms but in Japan, students had to participate in cleaning their school. At St. Paul, there were always middle aged women cleaning the classrooms for the students after school. Whereas in Japan, we students had to brush and wipe the floors of our classrooms after eating lunch every day. Right now at SFC, there are people hired for cleaning after school so we don't have to do much of the cleaning, but I still think cleaning your own classroom is one of the good customs in Japan.
It was exciting to learn and experience the two different types of school life in such a short period of time. I think that there are a lot of more differences that I didn't mention in this essay, but my conclusion is that each school has its own unique set of rules and customs. I like both schools and I hope that this experience would come into use later on in life.
