Thursday, July 30, 2009
First Day of School
Well my first day of school was today, which was a lot of fun. its VERY different from ours. in many ways. but for one thing their uniform. its not too bad of one, and people always try to break it by wearing sneakers instead of black shoes and stuff. but the teachers dont really mind all that much. So one big difference is they have 3 classes a day. each class is 100 mins long. So today i went to Gym, math and History. tomorrow i think its French english and maybe science i'm not sure exactly yet. but it changes depending on the day. But the school day is from 9-3:30. Their gym is a lot of fun though. we had croquet today, and we walked about 20ish mins to the croquet place and then they broke us off into groups and we played. which was really entertaining. doesnt sound it, but it was actually fun. i know... croquet being fun. weird. but everyone seems to be pretty nice there. the school is much more relaxed then school is in the states. just as a whole, homework really doesn't exist all that much. and its no where as intense and such. I also got asked a lot today by practically everyone if we have cafeteria's in my school. They dont have them at their school and they think its basically the coolest thing ever. They eat wherever they like on campus because everyone has lunch at the same time, so you just eat wherever. They have a place where you can get food but its not the same. They all said they'd like to be able to get a tray, go up to the lunch ladies and tell them what they'd like and then go sit down at tables and such. also the fact that we dont have school uniforms were an amazment to them too. All the school's have uniforms and the fact you can go to school in sweatpants and a tshirt is just awesome to them. Mostly they asked questions based on what they know from the movies and stuff and i had to explain that its not really all like that. somethings are but many aren't. Anyways first day was pretty good, i knew one girl before i went today so she showed me the ropes and stuff and then tomorrow i have plans with another girl that i met, and next week since my host family has to go out of town i was going to stay with a rotarian but i think i'm staying with one of my friends for the week. So everythings going pretty smoothly so far.
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Wow, 100 minute classes...I can't imagine that! Do you get bored in the core subjects or do the teachers break up the time with activities that get you up, moving around and interacting with other kids? (Sorry, it's the teacher in me that has a need to know!) I can't believe you're really in Australia now. That will take some getting used to around here. Maria is definitely missing you. Keep adding to your blog, you're going to have such a nice journal of your time Down Under when you're done. Take care. We miss you and love you! Mrs. Hogan
ReplyDeletecroquet is cool.... we play in Vestal too!
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Mr. and Mrs. M
I know. i was shocked when i saw it, but actually classes are so much fun! like its weird how fun it is. We talk most of the time. and its just like we do some work but work isn't as big of a deal here until year 12. ( they call it years instead of grades.) And i've been trying out different classes just to see what i like and such and i've found quite a few that i really want to take. And so its not too bad. After the first hour it tends to feel really long though. We dont just sit there the whole time. we do work and break off into groups a lot. Like today i had drama, french and graphics. and in drama we worked in groups, same in french we worked in groups and watched a movies. and in graphics we drew. and talked. not to bad. really its a lot of fun.
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