This is the post about the 5th October, not about today. The reason why I’m late is the fact that is too interesting here and we are doing too many things ;)
Friday the 5th October,
was our first day at school with a real schedule so we didn’t only have
orientation like we did the day before.
The first period we met again to
organize: you know about our scavenger hunt on Thursday from Jelka’s post and
we got our “prizes” – four different sorts of Oreo cookies!!
Besides, there was an article in
the Charles City newspaper Friday morning about our scavenger hunt, too. A
reporter of the newspaper found us in town and he asked us some questions and
also took some photos of Jelka, Merle, Falk and me during the scavenger hunt.
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The High School in Charles City
has a different system in using computers than we have in Walsrode: every
student gets their own laptop for school – a MacBook. This sounds unbelievable
to us Germans, but it is true :D
After our first homeroom period we
all separated to go to our classes we chose in Germany. My first two classes were American History
and Psychology, where we watched a video showing how gossip in schools has
changed or even stayed the same since the 50’s. My next class was creative
writing and we read texts that some of the American students had written in the
last time.
Lunch periods in America are only
25 minutes long, that means you have only 25 minutes to get your meal (4 to 5
minutes), find a place to sit (1 minute), eat, bring back your lunch tray (2
minutes) and run (!!!) back to your class. So there are only 16 minutes to eat
your lunch. That is very different than in Germany because even if we sometimes
have to wait a bit longer to get our lunch meal there is at least 40 minutes
left to eat. So we had to hurry a lot on Friday…
Another difference is the fact,
that everybody is scared to be late in class. Everybody knows the hallway of
our school in Walsrode after the ring – there are still some pupils left in it
after the ring and most of them are not hurrying too much…
Because I had some problems with
my locker on Friday, I was still trying to open it when it was ringing.
Fortunately I was able to open it in that moment, I threw my bag in it, closed
my locker, went around and – nobody was left, I was nearly alone in the
hallway. Fortunately my locker is very close to my classroom, so I wasn’t
really late…
Later in the day I also had German
class and we started our German class with asking each other questions about
our countries. It was fun to hear that the American students thought that it is
typical for us Germans to wear skinny jeans and scarfs... :)
In the evening we went to the
bowling alley with 12 Americans and Germans :)
Cassie W:
ReplyDeleteI found it interesting that the Germans weren't used to eating lunch so quick. It has been the norm for us since we started school. It is true. We are scared to be late to class because we don't want to get marked as tardy. Unfortunately, a lot of people struggle with their lockers and are usually late to class, I've done it quite a few times myself. It seems like hurrying is something we are mastering.
German won't be the same without you Luise!