First day of school

First day of school

 Today was my first day of school in St.Ansgar. It started fairly early for me because my exchange student, Tianna, had a practice for the school's dance team "Haloz". This started at 6:30am I had to get up at 5:30am so that we could leave at 6:10am. My host family lives pretty far away from the school so it took us 20 minutes to get to St.Ansgar. After dance practice Tianna and I went to her locker to leave our bags there because you aren't allowed to take them to class with you. Then I went to Mrs.Larsons room because all the german students met up there. Mrs.Larson then showed us around the high-,middle- and primary-school. She also explained to us how the school works for example, the schedules or lunch. Next week we can also chose which subjects we want to take. After first period I had art with Mr. Nielson. In the beginning we watched CNN 10 and afterwards we did the pledge of allegiance. When art finished we had lunch. We didn't eat the school lunch because we brought food from home. I am pretty happy about that because school lunch didn´t look very appetizing. Next period we had "Seminar". In "Seminar" you can basically do whatever you want; homework, draw, finish projects, or listen to music so everything is very chill. In general the lessons here in America are way more relaxed then the ones in Germany and the teacher-student relationships here is more personal and friendlier. After "Seminar" I went to band practice with Tianna because she plays the trumpet in the schools marching band. It was really interesting to see the practice because we don't have anything like that in Germany. That's pretty much everything that happened on my first day of school. There are quite some differences compared to german schools for example, everybody writes on their mac books, nobody writes on paper anymore and sports play a very big part in the every day school life. Right now we're about to eat an early dinner because we'll go to an open air concert this evening.