So today, I woke up, and my host mom told me that my younger host bro was not going to school today. I was like "okay, cool" and then she said "swine flu" in English and I laughed because it's become a joke in our house, since they had never heard the word "swine" vs. "pig" before, and my host dad is a big joker. So I laughed, but then she looked at me seriously and I said 本当?! (Really?!) and she goes 本当 (Really.) and I went へええええええええ (whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat). She told me that all the public middle and high schools in Osaka have been declared closed for the week.
Thinking nothing of this, I went to school and took my reading/writing final, which I had studied diligently for this weekend. After the test, I was all set to start in on studying for my Spoken Japanese final, when I start hearing all these rumors that school has been canceled.
Sure enough, it turns out that Kansai Gaidai has decided to shut down the entire school until Sunday, meaning that we won't take our Spoken Japanese finals, and our graduation/completion ceremony on Saturday has been canceled (which my friend was going to give a speech at, and also a lot of people's parents were flying to Japan for). I still have to e-mail in my Sexuality paper so it's not a total victory, and I was kind of looking forward to dressing up for the graduation ceremony, but honestly what a strange, strange thing. I, for one, am not concerned about my health in the slightest and feel that everyone is overreacting. I haven't heard anything from anyone back in the States about swine flu. Are YOU concerned about catching swine flu?
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No, I just want to wear a mask.
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