Here I go to a public school called Cemn 107. Since it's public it means no uniform :) I am in 4to, which is the eqvuiliant to year 12 in NZ. My school is a lot more relaxed and casual than little old KHS.
The day starts at 7.30 (!) and we go to the gym to see the flag being raised and the principal talks to us, then we head off to our classes. I have 7 each day with about 3 recreos (breaks) of anywhere from 5-15 minutes. Even after 3 days I can't work out the bell times! Then we finish at 12.30 to go home to have lunch, then on a Monday and Wednesday we have gimnasio from 2-3 which is pretty much just playing sports :) This week we played Basketball, Volleyball, Handball and a game kind of like dodgeball but I have no idea what it is called...
For the most part gimnasio is my favourite part of school, it's so fun and I find it's way easier to understand Spanish if I'm able to see them demonstrate what they are talking about!
As I said we have 7 classes a day everyday so that's 35 classes!
Here you don't get to pick your classes and you are with the same people in the same classroom everyday, all year.
My subjects are
-Maths
-Biology
-Geography
-French
-C.O.E which is communication, we study what's happening in the world and read newspapers etc
-Sociology
-Problematicas, which is basically a class about university and we learn about different courses and things to study
-History
-Historia educativa, the name means history of education so interesting.. not
-Literature
-Physical education
DIFFERENCES
-The class is very plain, because it's the teachers that move around not us
-If the teacher is not at school, there's no class!
-They use blackboards
-They call the teacher profe (Oy profe!) short for professor (teacher in spanish)
-It's normal to throw stuff around the room all the time
-They sing a lot! Bang the desks, whistle, chant etc.
-Everyone stays inside the class room the whole day, unless if they are going to the canteen or bathroom
-Some classes the teacher will talk the whole time, others don't do anything and it's quite common for the teacher to dicate (they speak, we write)
-Hardly anyone knows english, not even the teachers
-Everyone wears Jeans and Hoodies all the time, even when it's really hot!
School is getting better because I have made friends that help me understand and help me do the work. When we had french we basically spent the whole 2 hours looking through spanish-english dictionaries and the girls were teaching me different words and phrases.
They were very surprised when I told them we didn't have lunch at home, they thought that it sucked haha
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