THE SAME BUT VERY DIFFERENT

Today we shadowed our hosts. It was a lot of fun to see what American school life was like. On the first period I had English class. They were talking about English literature and Dante's Inferno. It didn't really make sense but it was pretty interesting at the same time. After that they made us interoduce ourselves which was pretty awkward but fun at the same times. The Americans were really interested in us and it kind of made me feel like a Zoo Animal. After English class my host had some kind of math group test. They had a test and had to finish it as fast as possible. It was pretty boring for me because I had to be quiet for an entire hour and just sit there and do nothing. Luckily, my host had regular math class which had a really fun teacher. He was extremely excited and had a lot of fun teaching. He didn't really interact with us at all but that was okay because I was tired. After the Maths clas we had lunch break. Their Cafeteria has a lot more food than ours. We got some fries and chicken for lunch. After the extremely healthy meal my host had Art class. They were making these tea cups out of clay. We couldn't really do anything that period we just sat there and waited for the period to be over

Het uur daarna hadden we economie, maar helaas hadden de leerlingen alweer een toets... De toets was iets anders dan wij gewend zijn. Het was een groepstoets dus de groepen mochten met elkaar overleggen en antwoorden uitwisselen. Na de economietoets gingen we door naar de gymzaal. Ik heb nog nooit zo'n aparte 'gymles' gezien... Iedereen zat op de tribune met elkaar te praten of huiswerk te maken. Ik vroeg aan mij host of dit normaal was en zijn antwoord was dat dit inderdaad de gemiddelde gymles was. De volgende les waar we heen gingen was Frans. De vorige les hadden de leerlingen een toets gemaakt dus kregen ze hun toetsen en cijfers terug. We zaten met een groepje van het Almere College en we hadden het erover dat de Franse lerares en de leerlingen een enorm Amerikaans accent aan de Franse taal gaven. Het was bijna niet te volgen.
De Franse les was het laatste uur dus we waren vrij om te doen met onze hosts wat we wilden.