Schüle, Nichts Neues (School, Nothing New)

             So the first week of school, which was the second week I was here, was of course not easiest but it was not too bad. It was my second time being a new kid in the school and this time around it wasn’t as hard, surprisingly. Of course the first few days people only wanted to talk to me because I was from America and here, at least in my school, America is about the coolest thing they’ve ever heard of. However before people in America go and get all cocky, their image of America is MTV and High School Musical. The people are very kind and I haven’t had much trouble at all, other than in some classes of course. Anything they see on TV about America they ask about. For example they think it is really cool that we have yellow school busses that only school kids can take because here school busses are just normal busses that happen to stop at the school. If a group of old men want they can take the very same bus, and they often do. I have to get up at 6:00AM every morning to catch a bus down the street and then sit in the bus for 50 minutes. My schedule here is a lot like a College schedule. I am taking Math, Chemistry, Biology, Philosophy, Geography, History, English, Music, Gym and German. I have each subject twice a week. The school day is six periods, and a period is and hour and five minutes long. There is a 20 minute break after the second and a 45 minute break after the fourth period. The school day is technically from 8:00-4:00PM but that is only if you have six classes that day. I have two days a week with six classes, one day a week with four classes and two days a week with two classes. That averages out to four a day, which is like school from 8:00-12:50. Also, if a teacher isn’t there, the class is dropped for that day and you can leave or do whatever, they almost never have substitute teachers. I have had days where I had school from 9:15-10:20. Also, you can leave the school for lunch or when you have a ‘frei Stunde’ or ‘free hour’. Basically, I am really enjoying this system because getting home before twelve O’clock is unbeatable.