School here is new and exciting but also confusing and
scary.
There are so many differences. For one you call your
teacher by their first name. No more miss, mrs and mr. It is a hard thing to
get used to and I feel as though I am being very disrespectful to them. I mean
today I had a conversation with the principal on the train to the city! Would I
have done that at home? No!!
School lunch. Having a full blown meal at school that is
cooked for you and free is so very odd! I can’t get used to not making my lunch
in a hurried rush in the morning and have gone, more than once, to go make
lunch in the morning before school! Even the other day when m host sister and I
were baking I thought to myself “oh that would be a good thing to take to
school for lunch!” Also I have had pancakes for lunch more than once over the
past two weeks! Best lunch EVER!!!
Class is probably one of the most confusing things yet! I
am in a class called sprint which means that I am doing Swedish almost 24/7! It
is great as I am picking up a fair bit already but it is also really hard to
keep your mind in the zone of Swedish!!! I am also taking a class called Music
Project. I don’t really play any sort of instrument but I really enjoy the
class, so we’ll see how that one goes! And of course I am taking English! It is
more of a way to meet some Swedish people but I bet I’ll learn things about
English I don’t even know!!
One thing that is great about school here is that it is
all in the one building. No more getting wet when you go from class to class
when it is raining. No more having to remember what block and where that block
is. It is just so great!
The whole school doesn’t ever start class all at the same
time nor finish classes. I have said goodbye to waiting for the bell to tell me
when to go to the next class or when lunch time is!
People are friendly and will talk to you and help you out
if you have no idea of what is going on (in English!)
I like school here. It’s fun, exciting, new and confusing
all at the same time.
