hello friend buddy pal today's kind of
more of a sit-down an update kind of
video I know that a lot of people have
been wondering how it's been for me so
if you don't know a few months ago I
posted a video titled I got into a
Japanese fashion college how I did it
and things like that and this is kind of
a follow up because now it's been like
three months of me actually being at the
college so that video was posted before
I got into the college and it discussed
things like how I got in what the
entrance guidelines were how much it
cost things like that so if that's
something you're interested in then go
check out that video because I'm not
gonna be touching on it in this video
because it's not relevant anymore
but yes so I have now been at my
Japanese fashion college for do we count
some holidays if we count some holidays
I think it's been four months but if we
don't count some holidays I think it's
in three months April May June July
August it's been about four months so
I've completed basically the first
semester which is kind of crazy like I'm
so surprised by how quickly that went by
it's already been the first semester
that's insane
so yeah fashion college it's been let's
just say intense I did ask you guys on
Instagram like what questions you had
and things like that because I wanted to
know like what's interesting to the
people watching a lot of people were
wondering what I made and I'm gonna show
you that to begin with so basically for
the duration of April what we did was we
were learning everything from scratch we
were learning different kinds of
hand-sewing
we were learning like how to thread the
needle through the machine by the way I
don't know the name of anything in
English I learn everything in Japanese
so I literally don't know what anything
anything is called in English so I am
sorry if I end up saying things weird
just because I don't really know how I
would say them in English but yeah so we
spent the first of April just going
through the absolute basics and getting
them down also every time you start a
new project we do this thing called the
bunny and what that means is like pot
sowing like you're sowing a specific
part so for example when we started
doing blouses we got like a tiny little
color just so that we could like have
this little thing to practice maybe I'll
show you as you can see here is this
little color which I used to practice
things like how do you actually make the
color so that I can learn how to attach
the collar and so that I could practice
like putting on buttons and buttonholes
which I did a really
by up with so as you can see I did
definitely meets your practice during
buttonholes also the teacher does
tutorials for like everything not it's
tutorials like even the word for it in
real life if you show someone how to do
something in real life it's a tutorial
so for example when we were attaching
the belt on our gather skirts or the
fasteners or whatever she would show us
how it's done like we would all gather
around a big table and she would just
show us that's pretty much the basics of
how we learn as far as what I made the
first thing I made is this skirt it's a
really really simple gather skirt and I
chose this really really cute floral
pattern it's got a belt attached I
believe this is three centimeters it's
got a little fastener and it's got a
zipper this is the first thing I have
ever sewn I'm quite happy with it it's
definitely not perfect like there's a
lot that definitely could have been
better but as far as things go I'm
really happy with it
yeah well considering it's the first
thing I've ever made you know because a
lot of people are asking like did I have
any knowledge of sewing before this I
had literally none I literally started
from zero I couldn't do anything
anything at all then the second thing I
made is this blouse which is obviously a
little bit more complicated than the
scarf it's still not quite that but with
the blouse I had a bit more fun being
able to design and how I wanted to the
chef's the people are making were also
different like some people wanted to
have long sleeves for example some
people wanted to have different kinds of
colors there's all different kinds of
colors as you know you can choose like
your button size and things like that so
I chose something that's like a nice
lilac purple color and I decided to use
a white collar color color
see that gets tough I also decided to
attach lace which I thought was so much
fun I think I'm definitely gonna be
attaching lace to a lot of different
things and I decided to put a little
elastic band inside the sleeves to give
it that like fluffy sleeves effect but
yeah so there's other things that I've
made so far and then over summer
holidays but you also have a free
project so I'm going to do it so I'm
going to do a purse tell yellow corrupt
sailor color blouse I'm definitely not
done with it yet so I don't really feel
like I want to show it to people but
yeah that's one
over the summer break and then also what
we're working on is we're working on it
started like the force on the break and
now it's like continuing after summer
break and that is working with wool so
I'm making a semi tight skirt and then
also I got loads of the same fabric so
but then I can use the same fabric on
the next project which is jackets so
then I can do like a little semi tight
skirt and blazer combo with the same
fabric I'm very excited for that that's
going to be so much fun so I definitely
can't wait to show you guys those things
I'm really excited about the projects
I'm doing right now but yeah because I'm
definitely still an absolute beginner my
focus is more so on getting the hang of
it more than making like the best thing
or the cutest thing although the free
project I definitely feel like is
something that I would genuinely PHY so
I'm really excited about that can't wait
sure you guys we're gonna find some of
your questions I've got quite a lot of
questions some people are asking me if
I've ever faced racism I would
definitely say I have not faced any
racism my classmates are also lovely
you've already seen them in some of my
videos like they all completely accept
me none of them I mean to me I have no
problem at all in my class I am the only
non East Asian student in my class does
Indonesia count as East Asia Indonesia
is Southeast Asia perfect basically I'm
the only person here was born and raised
in Europe which is quite interesting
other than the one Indonesian girl
everyone else are from countries like
South Korea Taiwan China things like
that so they're from countries that kind
of have a bit of history with Japan so I
feel like for them the language isn't as
difficult to learn definitely difficult
still but not as difficult so I feel
like as far as language goes me and the
Indonesian girl definitely have a most
of her codes the Indonesian girl also
speaks English which is great there's
also one Chinese guy who studied in an
international school of some things so
now he speaks really good English as
well but other than those three people
like me the Indonesian girl the Chinese
dude no one speaks any English no one no
one the teachers don't speak English and
know exactly which is really fun but at
the end of the day my brain is so tired
especially because I'm having to learn
everything in Japanese yes a lot of
people are asking like is everything in
Japanese everything is Japanese
everything really difficult so I have
definitely jumped into the deep and I'm
hoping it's gonna get easier as time
goes on but we'll see but yeah I'm
having a lot of fun and some people
asking like how I'm making friends so
easily I genuinely just think I have a
really nice class I got really lucky
with my class everyone there is really
nice I literally have no beef with
anyone like it's such a choked up it
also helps that it is quite a big class
it's like 52 students or something like
that it's a really really big class so
it's like you're bound to get along with
someone but I would genuinely like go
out there and say like I get along with
everyone
the teachers in Japan I find a little
bit more strict I think that the
teaching methods are quite different I
do really like my teacher though I think
she's really nice and she's really good
sometimes she's strict she scares me
sometimes fishy is really nice a lot of
people asking about the subjects I take
so for the most part we have focus or
which is like clothes so in those time
slots we basically just work on making
our clothes and on sewing and those
kinds of thing then we also learn design
as in like colors and saturation and
hues and things like that we learn
fashion history so we've literally like
started like all the way back in
Mesopotamia which is where my ancestors
are from and then they kind of just go
through to like the Greeks and the
Romans are like what they wore right now
I think we're on the Rococo era of
France and that's all the Japanese so
that's very difficult then we also have
drawing like a design design festa we'll
have to draw a model so they can roll
how to draw the clothes we have to like
painted and everything and our homework
for summer for that plus what's the draw
ten pages that's a lot so we have to do
like 10 full drawings and paint them and
stuff and we have to like focus on like
one's gonna be on denim one's gonna be
your leather and things like that I'm
not good at drawing and really not gonna
join but I will say that though drawing
class is definitely helping me a lot
like just like thinking about like
anatomy and stuff like in general my
drawing has improved so much so quickly
it's not great but it's definitely
definitely improved I don't want to show
you guys because it's not good if you
hear noise it's because he doe cuz it
just came so he's just laying down
anyway back to your questions oh yeah I
was talking about the subjects I take
the most difficult one by far is the one
called societal and it's like the study
of textiles it's so difficult because
there's so much that goes into it like
there's a lot like different kinds of
like acids for dyeing fabrics and this
and that like honestly like I'm saying
rubbish because I don't fully understand
it but my point is there's so many
different words that I don't even know
in English that they then give to me not
only in Japanese but fully with like
kanji and everything I'm just there like
uh-huh so that's definitely the most
difficult one and that was the most
difficult exam I don't think I did very
well and because I'm sorry exams go
because a lot of people asking about
like what the exams are like a lot of
the things are coursework
based for example finishing your work
handing in work making things things
like that but then there are also
written exams and the written exam for
making clothes is honestly not that bad
because fact like half of the points
were making the pattern for a shirt
which now we've done it so many times so
that was not really like a problem at
all for me it wasn't impossible is what
I'm saying so I passed that one it was
fine it's not that bad um I definitely
freaked myself out over it a lot in the
more worried about the ones in December
because I feel like they're gonna be
more intense because there's gonna be so
much more that we've learned
yeah the exams are also completely in
Japanese everything's in Japanese people
keep asking me like is this in Japanese
is this some Japanese everything is in
Japanese most of the questions were just
about the environment and what it's like
and things like that and the environment
is really like fast-paced it's really
crazy so while I'm at college it's hard
for me to do anything but focus on
college so even when I go home I'll be
working late at night on my things but
because it's something that I really
enjoy doing it's honestly not that bad
like if I hated it if it was a class
that I picked just because like my
parents wanted me to know parents want
their kids to go into fashion that bad
but like my point is if it wasn't
something that I was really passionate
about I definitely would hate it but
because it's something that I'm really
really into it's really not that bad the
class atmosphere like I don't feel like
an outsider at all I genuinely fully
feel like a part of the class cuz I know
that as a foreigner you do stand out but
I genuinely just don't think my
classmates treat me very differently at
they are very nice sometimes they're
interested in my culture like when my
friends went with me to Ikea yep that's
my culture but yeah I'm having a grand
old time more than anything this was an
update video I'm definitely gonna make
another update video like once I've done
the December exams and things like that
so if you have more questions leave them
down below I'll be very much interested
in hearing what you guys are interested
in but yeah just to summarize having a
good time everything's great yeah don't
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