The Road Less Traveled

Placement Test & Cafeteria Food

Tuesday, September 16th, 2008 by Rintaun | Food, Japanese

So I’m done with the first part of my placement test; the final part, an interview with the teachers, is tomorrow morning at 9:15am. All-in-all, I think the test went very well. I did quite horribly on the kanji section (I got 6, I think, out of 25 or so… yeah), but that’s actually expected. I did very well on the verb and adjective conjugations, and the general grammar section seemed to be mostly stuff I knew as well.

Finally around 11am I was able to go and get something to eat for lunch… I was pretty hungry. Breakfast consisted of a slice of toast, a hard boiled egg, and a small salad. Anyway, a bunch of people from our group decided to eat at McDonald’s for lunch, a couple of us thought that was retarded, and ended up eating in the cafeteria. In America, this may actually be a toss up.. often, McDonald’s food and cafeteria food are on the same general level of crappiness. However, this is absolutely not true of the cafeteria here. The food was very good, and worth the 470￥ (about USD $4.50) that it cost. And it was a good bit of food as well.

It was a bit funny how it worked though… generally, cafeterias in America are a buffet-style thing, or at most you go and tell a person what you want and they make it and give it to you. Not here. When you walk into the cafeteria, there’s a display showing all the different meals you can get, with their names and prices. Then there is a vending machine… you put money in, and (no, it doesn’t give you your food ) after pressing a button, it gives you a ticket for the meal you want. You then present this to the cafeteria worker in the right line and they give you your food.

Definitely worth the 470￥. Now I have to go back to the Center for International Programs for a campus tour. Yay.

Tags: Food, test, tour

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