High school high
Howdy, bloggers and readers!
School started this Monday, August 10. I?m attending Tivy high school (http://www.kerrvilleisd.net -> Tivy) in Kerrville. It is a whole new campus, so I?m not the only one who gets lost in this huge building! It takes you about 4-5 minutes to get from one side to the other. And with going to the restroom, etc. this is really hard to make! The ?tardy? policy is very strict here. The first time a student is late, his parents will be called, the second time his parents will be called and he/she has to face detention, and so it goes on?Not every teacher is going to really execute this policy, but it is actually a policy.
Another policy here is the ?closed campus? policy. That means that no student is allowed to go outside the building (or outside the dedicated cafeteria area, if he/she has lunch). And there are no exceptions of this rule. If you forgot your books or the whole backpack in your car (because most students drive to school, since it is outside town and they are allowed to drive by the age of 16) it your own bad luck. Even if you go outside the classroom to go to the toilet or something else, you would need a pass from the teacher. In my ?Health? class we are not even allowed to do this, and it is a 90-minutes period (I think a Health teacher should know better).
Oh, btw, these are my classes (a number indicates the level). Classes marked with ?G? were classes I had to take to graduate:
English 3
Fine Art Photography
Debate 2
Lunch
Honors band (this is the marching band that plays during football halftime, etc.)
US History (G)
Economics (G)
Computer Science 1
Health (G)
In Semester 2, which starts around Christmas, I will have some other classes.
I already had all of my classes, and I think I lit Computer Science, US History, Economics, band and Photography the most. Well, these are almost all of them, and this is because I could choose from almost every course they offer here. This is really cool, and so you are able to really take what you like!
With the band we practice almost every day, except Friday (and I have no school on Saturdays and Sundays). On Wednesday practice even starts at 0630 in the morning (0750 school begins, and it ends at 1520)!
Every morning there are announcements over the TV (every classroom has a TV, and every teacher and computer class (except Computer Science) has shiny new Dell computers and at the beginning of that there is always the pledge to the flag of the USA and to the flag of Texas. I don?t think this is a good way to educate children?But I?m glad to see how my photography class acted during the announcements ? chatting, playing and having fun (even during the ?moment of silence? after the pledges *g*).
Lunch here is quite lousy, I had a fried chicken steak the first day and it was awful! I will never have something like this again, so I chose a Cheeseburger the next day. It tasted better and may have been even healthier. A real cool thing about lunch here is that they offer many fresh fruit. I really like that and it is a good idea!
Tomorrow, Thursday, August 21st I have a concert with band! I?m really looking forward to it because I improved a lot since I came here!
That?s it for today, folks!
I hope you enjoy summer as much as I do!
Have a nice day,
capnez
Howdy, bloggers and readers!
School started this Monday, August 10. I?m attending Tivy high school (http://www.kerrvilleisd.net -> Tivy) in Kerrville. It is a whole new campus, so I?m not the only one who gets lost in this huge building! It takes you about 4-5 minutes to get from one side to the other. And with going to the restroom, etc. this is really hard to make! The ?tardy? policy is very strict here. The first time a student is late, his parents will be called, the second time his parents will be called and he/she has to face detention, and so it goes on?Not every teacher is going to really execute this policy, but it is actually a policy.
Another policy here is the ?closed campus? policy. That means that no student is allowed to go outside the building (or outside the dedicated cafeteria area, if he/she has lunch). And there are no exceptions of this rule. If you forgot your books or the whole backpack in your car (because most students drive to school, since it is outside town and they are allowed to drive by the age of 16) it your own bad luck. Even if you go outside the classroom to go to the toilet or something else, you would need a pass from the teacher. In my ?Health? class we are not even allowed to do this, and it is a 90-minutes period (I think a Health teacher should know better).
Oh, btw, these are my classes (a number indicates the level). Classes marked with ?G? were classes I had to take to graduate:
English 3
Fine Art Photography
Debate 2
Lunch
Honors band (this is the marching band that plays during football halftime, etc.)
US History (G)
Economics (G)
Computer Science 1
Health (G)
In Semester 2, which starts around Christmas, I will have some other classes.
I already had all of my classes, and I think I lit Computer Science, US History, Economics, band and Photography the most. Well, these are almost all of them, and this is because I could choose from almost every course they offer here. This is really cool, and so you are able to really take what you like!
With the band we practice almost every day, except Friday (and I have no school on Saturdays and Sundays). On Wednesday practice even starts at 0630 in the morning (0750 school begins, and it ends at 1520)!
Every morning there are announcements over the TV (every classroom has a TV, and every teacher and computer class (except Computer Science) has shiny new Dell computers and at the beginning of that there is always the pledge to the flag of the USA and to the flag of Texas. I don?t think this is a good way to educate children?But I?m glad to see how my photography class acted during the announcements ? chatting, playing and having fun (even during the ?moment of silence? after the pledges *g*).
Lunch here is quite lousy, I had a fried chicken steak the first day and it was awful! I will never have something like this again, so I chose a Cheeseburger the next day. It tasted better and may have been even healthier. A real cool thing about lunch here is that they offer many fresh fruit. I really like that and it is a good idea!
Tomorrow, Thursday, August 21st I have a concert with band! I?m really looking forward to it because I improved a lot since I came here!
That?s it for today, folks!
I hope you enjoy summer as much as I do!
Have a nice day,
capnez
diza meinte am 21. Aug, 16:51:
hallo!war auch mal austausch schülerin.
ebenfalls in texas.
aber in dayton, einem kaff in der nähe von houston.
ich hoff, es macht dir spaß!
susiyin meinte am 21. Aug, 17:14:
dear capnez
i met u during the moedling flashmob and am very glad to find U writing in English here now!i'm so glad u enjoy your stay in the states and really hope that we well read regularly from you although u only have a 28kb modem
are there problems with floods right now in texas?
do u thing ARNI will become governor of CALIFORNIA - it is not so far away....... for american distances
looking forward 2 reading u soon here, yrs susi from wien
smarts meinte am 21. Aug, 18:04:
mödling goes usa...
cool thing. congrats - your english is improving pretty fast - keep up that pace and you'll be native by the end of september ;-). enjoy your stay at "high-school-high" - it's gonna be the time of your (school-)life. looking forward to reading more....
RokkerMur meinte am 17. Sep, 13:21:
A long siesta in Texas ? ;)Or a longer Fiesta ? *gg*
