In school day before yesterday I got a 19/20 on my English test. Despite how happy I was with the score, all my friends seemed entirely unimpressed, to the point that they laughed at me. I told them that English is very difficult, and they said "yes, but it´s your language! I would get a 20 in Spanish!" "Yes", I replied, "but what would you get in English!?" Nobody was amused.
Kennith (the other American exchange student) and I are finding the environment very stressful. When one of Kennith´s friend´s phones went off in class, he started coughing uncontrollably to try to cover the noise from the teacher. When the teacher asked him sarcastically what was wrong, he put a dumb look on his face and responded "no entiendo" (I don´t understand). Kennith of course speaks Spanish quite well, and the teachers response was "well do you understand leave class?"
When Kennith and I have these situations in which we are sent out of class, or not allowed in because we are wearing the wrong uniform, we usually sit outside and read. I have been reading "one hundred years of solitude", which I so far love very much. It helps me get my mind off the problems I experience, as does writing blog entries.
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Thank God for English class when studying abroad! When I was in Denmark, I often didn't get perfect scores, sometimes because of my American English, sometimes because of poor grammar! At the end of the year, we had oral exams--my teacher and a neutral teacher from another school listened to me, then I went out while they decided my grade. A friend who was in the room preparing for her exam told me after that the neutral teacher wanted to give me an 11 (about 90%) and my teacher refused, insisting I get a 13 (100%) even though I had made mistakes. I got a 13.
And Thank God for good books too! Now if you can only wear the right uniform to school (are there more than one)?
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