AMERICA 2015: part 2

Hello again. Right now it is raining and it is grey outside. On days like this, where I am sitting in class and it is pouring down outside, do I miss America more then ever. Something that never failed in California was the heat. We actually had a a few days in California, where it was clouded weather, but clouded weather does not mean low temperature. I guess the lowest temperature we had during the day was down in 67 Fahrenheit and the highest was 106 Fahrenheit. It felt like i was melting that day.

For this second post about my trip this summer, I thought I could tell you about how school worked. Now, I was lucky because the family I stayed with only lived 7 minutes away from the school. So every morning and afternoon, they picked us up and dropped us off at school.

School started at 8.30 am and we either had 40x4 minutes of classes or 40x5 minutes classes during the day. This usually depended on what activity we had after school. When it came to our classes, we where divided into our classes, based on a language test we took online 60 days before we went on this trip. The classes was then divided into the levels the students where on. I, was on level 5, which is also the highest level for EF education. School this summer was only divided into level 3, 4 and 5 but each level had several classes.

EF have developed their own education system and have their own books from exclusive authors that is based on what we are learning about in different at the different destinations. They divide their students into different levels, that way each student can learn as much as possible.

For our classes we switched teaches. One day we had teacher #1, the next day teacher #2 and then teacher #3 the day after that. Each teacher had assignments that we did in class. We had gotten the EF language book and our passport book to use during school, where we could do tasks and fill out what goals we had achieved.

My head-teacher for this summer was the kindest and sweetest person ever. Her name was Angela and her daughter, Reesa, also came to help her this summer. EF handpicks their teachers and they do a great job at finding good teachers that works well with exchange students. I truly learned a lot this summer and I was able to expand my vocabulary a whole lot. Even though, we had school from monday to friday and it was educational, I still learned the most when I was with my family.