Keiko Imanishi

Primary School

​Year 1997 - 2001

■I have spent my primary school days at my father’s hometown, Itami-shi in Hyogo Prefecture.

 

I have lived in Malaysia until age 6 and I have been speaking to

my parents in English and my babysitter in Mandarin so I did not know how to speak Japanese at all.
I had to struggle learning the Japanese language when I went

back to Japan. I was 6 years old then.
Luckily I was young so I could pick up quite fast and I soon got used to the new environment.

 

 

JSKL Japanse School KL （in Subang）

​Year 2001 - 2004

■From Primary 6 - Secondary 2 Second Term

 

The Japanese School of Kuala Lumpur was really spacious and there were many interesting events so I could learn many things and enjoyed my school life there.

 

ELC International School（UK Curriculum）

​Year 2004 - 2007

■From 14 - 17 years old

 

All this while I had my Primary and Secondary education in Japanese somy parents thought “this is not good enough". Therefore they insisted that I to go to International school.

I had been studying all subjects in Japanese for 8 years and

all of a sudden all the subjects were in English. In addition,

there were not many Japanese students so the environment has totally changed. For the first few months I was struggling to catch up with my studies and the international culture. However, because of having being put through this experience for 3 years, I am able to learn the “global mind set”.