First Day at Conval High

We may have had a head start today, because of all waking up simultaneously at 5:30 am , but that could not prepare us for the craziness, in a positive way, and the cultural shock that we would be confronted with on our first day of American school!

The day started with our host giving us a tour through the maze that is their school, while we couldn’t stop asking ourselves if we woke up in an American teenage movie? That particular feeling would accompany us for the rest of the day.

The thing that amazed me the most was the student-teacher dynamic.

For me it was just incredible. The teaching is on a whole different level, since the teachers are not afraid to connect personal aspects of their life with their teaching. We even ended up eating lunch and casually chatting with the art teachers.

A nice break from the chaos of a 800-students highschool was my host’s internship at the local newspaper. We just took a camera and started driving around taking pictures. Seeing the leaves of the Indian Summer reflected in this beautiful lake was just amazing!

We finished the day of school off with an Oktoberfest imitation. The pretzels and apple juice reminded us a lot of the real Oktoberfest, except the quality of the American’s approach on it was a lot higher. We might have lost at a game of trivia against the Americans, although we are certain, it was because they had easier questions, but it still was a perfect finish to an amazing day full of new impressions.