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Nov 05, 2009 04:49PM
Sakura sat under a tree reading
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Sakura saw the bus pull up be ignored it.
"Are you two the other exchange students?"
"I suggest we make out leave for class now."
Bella walked itno the courtyard, and saw some people gathered around. "Allo!" she smiled. "DO any of you where Dorm Three ees?"
Bella raised her eyebrowsm, surprised at te thick accent. "O, ah I'm Bella, by the way." she said with her light French accent.
Bella nodded. "nice to meet you, and you all go 'ere?"
Bella smiled. "Me too, and you're from Britagna((i tihnk that's how they spell it in France)) right?"
((hey sorry I'm back)
'That sounds lovely."
'That sounds lovely."
"Oui." she smiled. "Fresh out of Rhone."
Sakura ran up to them."Ohyio Patrick-Kun. Bella-San"
Bella frowned slightly. "Ohyio?"
She nodded. "Where are 'ou from?" she inquired Sakura.
SHe smiled. "O that ees very nice!"
Bella frowned. "It's Bella....just..Bella."
"Oh I'm sorry. In Japan we add sufixes to the ends of names. "
"Such as Kun witch I could put behind Patircks name. Kun (君, in Kanji ?, くん in Hiragana) is used by persons of senior status in addressing or referring to those of junior status, or by anyone when addressing or referring to male children or male teenagers. It can also be used by females when addressing a male that they are emotionally attached to or have known for a long period of time. Although kun is generally used for boys, that isn't a hard rule. For example, in business settings, young female employees may also be addressed as kun by older males of senior status."
"Chan (ちゃん?) is a diminutive suffix; it expresses that the speaker finds a person endearing. Thus, using chan with a superior's name would be condescending and rude. In general, chan is used for babies, young children, and teenage girls. It may also be used towards cute animals, lovers, close friends or any woman with youthful spirit.San (さん?), sometimes pronounced han (はん?) in the Kyoto area, is the most common honorific and is a title of respect similar to "Mr.", "Miss", "Mrs.", or "Ms." However, in addition to being used with people's names, it is also employed in a variety of other ways.San can also be attached to the names of animals or even inanimate objects. For example, a pet rabbit might be called usagi-san, and fish used for cooking can be referred to as sakana-san. Both uses would be considered childish (akin to "Mr. Rabbit" in English) and would be avoided in formal speech.
Senpai (先輩 【せんぱい】?) is used to address or refer to one's senior colleagues in a school, company, sports club, or other group. So at school, the students in higher grades than oneself are senpai. Students of the same or lower grade are not senpai, nor are teachers. In a business environment, colleagues with more experience are senpai, but one's boss is not a senpai. Like "Doctor" in English, senpai can be used by itself as well as with a name.
Sama (様 【さま】?) is a significantly more respectful version of san. It is used primarily in addressing or referring to people much higher in rank than oneself, toward one's customers, and sometimes toward people one greatly admires. When used to refer to oneself, sama expresses extreme arrogance (or self-effacing irony), as with ore-sama (俺様?, "my esteemed self").
THeres alot more but I will not go into it."
Bella frowned, extremely confused. "Um...I'm sorry I totally mised all of that." she smiled apologetically.
bella looked around ackwardly and flung her Burken bag over her shoulder. "Well it was nice to meet you all but i ahve to find my dorm."
Bella smiled softly and walked up to her dorm building, hoping to make friends soon.
"SO what do you want to do Patrick-Kun"
Bella unpacked her numerous teen vogues, seventeens, bazaar, cosmo, cosmogirl, and vogues and clipped up her fahsion pics all up on her clipboard.
