[She takes a quick bite of her lunch before answering him. ]

Yep, it's a lot different. Back home I was only in junior high, but a third-year junior high student there is a first year high-school student here. [She pauses, thinking about it a bit more. ]

Also, clubs are a lot less important here. Back in Japan clubs were super important and took up a ton of time. And well... high-school's not even required back in Japan. Not that my mom or dad would let me skip high-school, but it's not like here where we're actually forced to go.