2 (Technically) First Day of School

So, from quick google searches, on incognito mode because I don't wanna look like an idiot, I found out some things. (thank you google-sensei) First, months, days, years, they are pretty much all the same.

Holidays, they are a little different. The ones based off religion are pretty much the same. Christmas, Easter, Hanukah, etc.

However, on top of new holidays, ones based on key events of history are different or just straight up don't exist. For example, the colonization of North and South America apparently never happened. This resulted in Thanksgiving, the 4th of July, and other US holidays to not exist.

It seems when "humans", now called Sapients, came to America for the first time, they didn't meet Native Americans, or well, they did, but the "new" Native Americans were the Elves.

While guns did exist at the time, same as old history, the sapients found elves better to trade with than to fight. This lead to the colonization never happening. However, some European cultures still made it to America as shown by the similar holidays.

"Human" in this variation of the world refers to a group of species that matches a certain criteria. Not that much different than old history really, except that the other species of "human" are still alive.

What a lot of people don't know is that throughout history more than one species of human lived on the Earth, it's just the Homo Sapiens that made it to modern times. Except after the Shift, it seems that new species of Human have popped up. Most of them resemble fantasy creatures, such as Elves, Dwarves, Halflings, etc. But some of them resemble things in Eastern pop culture too.

Such as Beastmen, and even some creatures such as Kitsune... which are different creatures, I'll look up why later.

Anyway, back to what I (have not) been waiting for! My high school debut... technically. Okay so maybe in this world I am a Junior in high school but this school is all new for me okay! Well or so I thought.

On first glance the school looks completely different. It's carved into a tree after all. However, once I went inside it seems like the layout, the classes, really everything about it is the same. Except for the strange abundance of wood, talk about a fire hazard.

The most different thing about the school is the students and teachers. Just like my mom they all look the same except for the key features of their distinguishing race. While a good portion are elves, there are also dark elves, beastmen, halflings, I swear I saw a goblin, and also sapients. There were some others too. My Japanese teacher is a kitsune!

Well, that one actually kind of makes sense. I say kind of because this situation is STILL too weird y'know! As I sit in class I did learn one painful detail, I'm still a loner.

Well I guess even if the nature of the world can change over night, a person's cannot. Well something strange I didn't notice at first is that, well, I'm not speaking English. Apparently I am speaking Elvish. It seems that when I speak, I'm automatically translating what I say into Elvish, subconsciously at that.

Whelp, at least I learned a "foreign" language overnight. And since I'm learning Japanese, what does that make me, trilingual? Turns out an English language course is required in high school so looks like an easy A to me!

It's 8:00 and classes start. Same as always. It is so weird seeing things so similar yet so different to my old everyday life. It's Japanese class, which I was interested to find out that Japan is the origin of the beastmen and kitsune races as well as a few others.

It's the first day back to school so there wasn't a lot of work, so I mostly just looked some stuff up on google to inform myself on the current world. For example, Japan, America, and a good few other countries are now the origins of these new human races.

Europe is the home of sapients, America of the elves and dark elves, Japan of the beastmen, kitsune, and other animal related species. There's China which is the home of a couple such as Dragon-kin and the Zodiacs.

The zodiacs are interesting for sure. They are like a mixture between sapients, beastmen, and werewolves. Depending on the day of the week they will slowly gain features based off of their "zodiac" until on Sunday, they look like a beastman of the respective zodiac. If the year matches with their zodiac, (i.e. year of the monkey) then they will be in that form until the next year. I don't know why it happens and apparently scholars, both scientific and magical, are trying to find out to this day.