A Year to Remember
Welcome students to Qopen VI Memorial Secondary School! Or in the tongue of the locals ṃăġor rasil rasilĵaes! You are an exchange student from somewhere in Tiandi, perhaps from Hapcheon, or even our neighbour to the west, Daesong. Wherever you are from, you have now come to this country to study! The school is situated right on the edge of the sunny suburb of Qopenmyr, in the city of Qo'yyen - which is right on the beautiful and shimmering Basilisk Bay. Though you may find the people strange, their clothing just a little too bright and loose at time, and their pronouns confusing, this is your home for the next year - so get used to it!
Just a quick run-down of Qo'yyenese schooling policies. The Qo'yyenese put a much more heavy emphasis on the arts (especially music, sculpting, traditional dance and poetry) than most other countries, and religion is still taught in public schools. The Qo'yyenese devote a lot of time in Language classes to their own grammar, so story-writing and poetry fall under the "Arts" label, while "Languages" is just the technical study of the language.
Your host school is brand new, just refurbished two years ago - and has a bustling population of about 800 kids.
Expect people you meet in the city to be flambuoyant, loud and colourful. But please, remember not to commit the faux pas of behaving rudely in the presence of a shrine - you will get some very loud put-downs. People will be patient if you are just learning the languages, just remember the proper pronominal arrangements - they consider it funny for someone to refer to themselves with the pronoun "I" and prefer "a man/woman etc." You WILL eat a lot of good food and experience a lot of culture!
Have fun AND an awesome year!