School

It's starting to feel like fall. Early fall, but fall nonetheless. I think the cold spell we had killed summer, or at least my belief in it. It was rainy and wet and cold and grey and did I mention WET? I even dug out my big pink wool socks. It's warm again, but the air smells different and I've taken to carrying a coat.

This week, school is in the afternoon, from 2 till 8, which feels so weird!

I guess I should explain how my school works; it's pretty different.
I go to a gimnazija, which is a high school like we have in the US, where students study everything. Here, students can also go to technical schools for high school, where they learn a trade. Gymnazija students pretty much have to go to university after they graduate. Most buildings house two schools, which rotate holding class in the morning or afternoon each week. So last week, I had class from 8am-2pm, and this week it's from 2pm-8pm. Classes are 45 minutes long, and students have 14-19 subjects that meet one to four times a week. My school is a bilingual school, so everyone must take English, and my class has physics and sometimes history in English, as well. In the first year, they are put in a class based on their second language, and they take all their subjects with that class for the entire 4 years. I think that explains most of it...

Alright, I'm tired of writing now, so anything else will have to wait...