Week One

Alright, the reason for the long time between posts is that our Internet at home is down, so I have to write at school. So, that's out of the way.

My first week at Saigon South International School was....CRAZY! My classes are so different from my classes at home! I'm going to now do about a paragraph for each one.

Spanish
UUUggh. Hard doens't even begin to cover it. It's a Chilean guy speaking nothing but Spanish at us. It wouldn't be so bad,except that everyone else seems to know what's going on! Except me of course. Ugh. The teacher wants to tutor me, he believes I can catch up, but in the meantime, he's still going to hold me to the same academic standars as everyone else. HAve I mentioned UGH?! Eh, thinking about it makes me want to throw something heavy. Preferrably breakable.
Moving on.

Algebra 2
This class is taught by an Indian woman. As in India, not the incorrectly named Native American. I'll explain later if anyone cares. Anyway, she wears traditional Indian dress, complete with the third eye in between her eyebrows. Way cool. That's a bit of culture you'd never see at home. The class itself is challenging, just by the virtue of it being math. I don't think it will be near as much of a drama as Coleman's class. grrrr...don't even get me started.

English
I like it ok...it's English. The teacher is cool. He likes Wicked, Miss Saigon...he's heard of RENT, but never actaully listened to it. Haha, we'll work on that. Currently the class is on a grammar streak. We're learning about subject/verb agreement...Again. I've taken high level English classes before, so I basically get to read a lot. It's not too bad.

Drama
Umm...it's not as great as originally thought. The guy is very..."get in touch with your inner feelings". Don't get me wrong, feelings are a big part of acting, bu the's verging on almost too weird for theatre. He's verging on shrink. Ehehe...We're doing trust activites which is a weird unit to start with, because we don't even know each other's names yet, we hardl ytrust each other. I'm hoping it will get better.

Biology
As I said before, I think, this is nothing near as hard as Flemdawg's class. I actually think I might be doing Flemdawg and Pulsifer proud with my mad bio skills. We talked about genetics yesterday, and I was all over it. All over it! It was great! Now at least there's one teacher who doesn't think I was brought up by heathens. Haha

World History
Before I go into this, let me give you a bit of background. I was taking a mad fast AP history course in the States, so this is a bit of a slow down. Actually a huge slow down. We're going to spend three weeks covering nothing but world religions. I think the AP class might've taken three minutes on the topic. I am actaully fairly knowledgeable in this area, so it's led to some intersting discussions.

Last but not least...Chorus
I thought it was going to be much worse. I'll admit, I have no singing background. Haha, I don't have to for this class. We've done mainly breathing excersizes, and a little mono-noted warmup. It's basically a bunch of girls speaking in super fast Korean. It actually wouldn't matter if they were speaking super slow, I still wouldn't know what the flip they were yakking about. When they laugh, I kind of smile. Trying to keep attention awy from myself in case they get the (wrong) idea that I know what's going on. HAha. It's nto so bad really, I get to read there too.

Well, I must dash. Hopefully I will have more crazy American stories next time. Howver, now I am in a bit of a rush because I think Soleil migh tleave school without me. Haha, love and bye for now.