This is the first day of school !!! I woke up at 7AM and I got ready, I putted my uniform made of a sweater and a jogging with the symbols of the school on it. I was excited and at the same time I was totally scared and stressed ... I had my usual breackfast : toasts with butter and vegemite and a vanilla latte. While I was eating, Lorraine prepared lunch and putted it in my lunchbox. It was new for me because we are not allowed to bring our lunch at my school, we have to eat at the cantine or outside of the school.
We took the bus at 8:30AM heading to Damascus college. This college is enormous compared to mine ! There are so many buildings and so many green area where students can sit or eat ! I was really impressed. As soon as we arrived, Ella took me to her locker and told me that it was the meeting point if I ever get lost. At 9AM, the bell rang and we went to TA, it's a time before class where the teacher in charge of the group informs the pupils about their day and if there is any change in their timetable. After TA, we went to the office and then to the meeting room where we met the headmaster and two French teachers. With all the student of the exchange, we listened to the welcome speech and we met Sofia, an Italian student here for a month as well as us. After that, we made our own timetables in which we could chose cooking, metal, art, PE, or wood. Then, we went to class with our penpals for the day.
This is the girl uniform and the buildings The first two hours, I went to litterature and I met Ally, one of Ella's friend. In litterature we studied Hamlet of Shakespeare. Then, after the fifteen minutes break, where I met all the group of friends of Ella, we went to art. I met Ella's art teachers, Mrs ..., and she immediatly asked me a lot of questions aabout France, my school, my family, myself ... She is really nice and so funny ! She offered me a lot of options of works I could do and I chose "Human body and culture". She was so friendly with me and with the rest of the class, taht surprised me because in France we are not that close to the teachers, it's really different. Moreover, students can eat and drink in class, they are talking all the time, using their phones, they are also not rising their hands to answer or to ask a question, thta's totally different from French system.
Then we had lunch, I ate with my friends because it was the first day of school and everybody had a lot to tell about the college and their families ! We sitted in the room called "the cantine", where poeple can by food and drinks. After lunch break I went to history for two hours as well. I am usually bored in history because I don't really like it but today it was great ! The teacher was so captivating ! We worked on Yalta's and Potsdam's conferences during the second world war.
At 3:18PM the bell rang and we took the bus to come home. At home we had a snack and we did our homeworks. Then we watched TV while Lorraine was cooking chicken with vegetables and French fries. I took a shower and I went to bed because I was exhausted by this first day of school !