Traveling. Exchange. Thoughts.: City High Pep Rally!

Hello there! ⍟

So this week is my third week as a student at City High.

And first everything was really confusing! The school is huge and so crowded! My school in Germany had about 600 students in total and here there are about 600 students in one year! There are three floors and incredibly many rooms, and with my great sense of orientation you can imagine how easy it was to find all of my class rooms. Yeah, exactly. Using irony here.

I guess I got used to it now though. And luckily there are five other exchange students here, a girl from Bulgaria, one from Italy, one from Norway, one from Sweden and also a guy from Germany! So since the first school day I was never alone, and I'm so glad about that!

The courses for my first trimester:

Foundations of Journalism

American Studies 2

Acting

Basic Photography

Algebra 1 (2 for the first week)

Open Period

US Literature

Algebra 2.

I was fine with all of them, I did my best to be a part of the classes, and it's going well!

Except for Algebra 2.

I was never good at math, I hate it, but I had to take it in order to continue the math class at my school in Germany. It makes sense that you have to take Algebra 1 before you take Algebra 2, but apparently people at my age would all take Algebra 2 and I thought there would be some kind of introduction or explaining after the long summer break. But no, of course that wasn't the case.

Already at the second day of school, they started to work in their books, answering question after question, and there was no explanation at all.

So I had to try hard not to cry and went to my school Counselor. We decided that it would be better if I joined Algebra 1 instead.

A course full of freshman (and I'm considered a senior). But these math vocabularies are seriously so complicated. When I first heard “Integer”, “Rational” or “Terminating” I was like “Oh my god get me out of here!”
But it's going better now. Had my first Algebra test today too, I hope it's not too bad.

The City High Pep Rally.

Now that was a really fun experience! The whole school wore red and white and got together at the City High Little Hawks football field. All of the sport teams introduced themselves. Of course the football team was the most popular one. Then they also played some games and the school director and the administrative staff did the Ice Bucket Challange (picture above).

Unfortunately I couldn't get in any sport teams this trimester, I probably arrived too late, but I will definitely join one in the following trimesters. The spirit of the teams are amazing!

Here are some photos of the Pep Rally: