Expect the unexpected

 Mondays and Thursdays are my favorite days of every week. I don't have to wake up early in order to reach school slightly before 0750. It would really be good for me to be like a snail in the morning. I have never done that in Malaysia. I am always awake once I am awake then. I even slept in a public transport vehicle. Honestly speaking, I was feeling really tired.

I never expected much from the students here in school. I assume that the students here will not bother my existence in school sooner or later. Fortunately, it is really true that the less you expect the less disappointments a person receives. In another way of saying, when you expect less the more surprises you receive. It's just like on Monday, I met a classmate, Lyam from Maths and Music course at the train station after school. I expected nothing from him or assumed that he might pretend to not see me. Eventually he said Hi to me and asked me whether if everything's okay. However he expressed that particular sentence in a way that I have never heard before. He can't explain it himself. I thought that he was talking baby language to me. I told my mother and sister about that. They started laughing because his way of expressing is really cute. They suggested that I should reply him in a cute way too. My face flushed pink because that way of replying his question might cause misunderstanding. They suggested reply was ''Everything's okay, my teddy" It's not really rhyming or that funny when I translated it into English. None the less, He was the first German boy who I think is really open. Or maybe it is because he was also an exchange student?

The students here take a long time to warm up, it takes a longer time than expected for them to talk to me. I was glad that I took the initiative first, it was so much better than waiting. A girl, Hana in orchestra that plays the flute started to chat with me on Wednesday. She was really nice too. After speaking with her, I can really conclude that German is a complicated and hard language. She even told me that the Germans make mistakes too when speaking. Most of them can't really explain the grammar clearly. Kate told me that German is in their blood. Telling myself that German is hard is not much of a use, I still have to learn it in order to make more friends and understand Germany more.

The better I handle the language, I felt easier to communicate and make friends with the Germans. Most of the students feel easier to speak with me now. Honestly, I start to think that they don't really speak to me because of the level of their English, besides being shy. When I got to know them more, I learned that they really friendly and are always happy to help. I am glad that I am enrolled in this school. Just like in my Biology class, the teacher wanted the students to explain the class to me in English because the scientific terms they use in German takes time for me to look up in the dictionary. The Biology teacher helped me a lot in understanding the class and participating with the others. I wasn't left out. The motto of the school,"school without racism, school with courage" is already a sign of warm welcome to the foreign students or students or different races. I am really lucky because my school is really active in semester exchange programs. I find that the students that returned from foreign countries are friendlier and more open minded.