Talking about kindergarten, her senior year and everything in between - this is the latest note of our blond whuffle.
S
o, hello again, I am back. Last time I ended up talking about my awesome high school and how great it is. It's really great, you know. My school is small or at least smaller then a big school. There are the kindergarten kids, elementary, junior high and senior high - let me explain the system to you quite quickly. Kindergarten is known in Germany as well; however, it's not the same as here. Kindergarten (or kindergarden, I'm really not sure about that*) are the first years of school.
My school from the outside (plus a small piece of the road).
The Kiddos learn their numbers, the alphabet, colors and so on. This is followed by the Elementary and the JH, which you attend till 9th grade. Then you start as a ninth grader, better known as "freshman", you continue your career as a "sophomore" (speak: sŏf'ə-môr' or sŏf'môr'), junior and, finally, senior before you actually graduate from high school. Generally, I'm considered a junior; however, nobody is sure about that because I insist on being a senior. So everybody believes that, too. I wanna tell you, why being a senior is great. First of all, you are automatically cooler then everybody else. You're friends with every teacher. You order funny Senior T-shirts. You get out early for lunch. You are going to funny meetings about your life plan and colleges. Life is just so much cooler being a senior!!
As I already mentioned, the teachers and I are buddies. They make fun of the younger students just like we do. During some periods we are just joking around because not even the teacher wants to do anything. We bring candy to school, the teacher wants his part. And even if you want to hug a teacher, feel free to do it!
Locker! Meiner!
Our breaks between every period are short. Three minutes to get to your locker (yes, I got one, like in these American teenager movies; and in the senior part, hehe), if need be head to the restroom AND get to your class before the bell rings. By the way, the bell doesn't actually ring - it has the sweetest sound in history of bells. Bing ... Bing ... Bing. You know, your class is over and you still can hear! There isn't the long annoying skirl of an ordinary bell; there is just a soft, modern Bing. Being an exchange student offers more than you could guess at the beginning. I got bonus points at a test because English isn't my native tongue. I can walk around as I please (of course with hall pass ;) ) without being asked where I was going. From time to time we, i.e. my friends and I, just beg the teacher to get the period off and we play with playdooh. And I don't even want to get started about homework. Since I started school last year I had two pieces of homework to do at home. TWO. DOS. DUE. TWA. ZWEI. I only did one though because I forgot the book for the other one in my pretty gray locker.
Seems like there is nobody in class.
So I did my unfinished work in my "study hall". You might wanna know what a "study hall" was, won't you? A study hall is a free period, during which you can do whatever you feel like. You could do homework or you just chat with the teacher, run around in school, read, browse the internet (there is a computer in every single room), enjoy the sun outside, go and visit other classes, look through magazines or just do anything else. I have a study hall every day. And sometimes I even got a couple of them, i.e. if the teachers are sick or just don't feel like teaching.
Not overly educated but still happy as Riley, I wish you all a good night (because I'm sure it's night right here when you read these words).
*kindergarten is perfectly right although Americans tend to spell it incorrectly (Anmerkung der Redaktion)
Magi is 17 years old and lives in Bradford in the US state of Ohio since summer last year (yes, this high school exchange student thing). On WOOLING.NET she tells you about the daily routine over there. Have a look on what she already published.
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