Escuela

Yesterday, was my first day of school at Colegio San Juan Evangelista. I have a wonderful uniform that I wear which includes a blue skirt, polo shirt, black shoes and navy tights. I can wear any colored blue/black sweater because there is no heat that circulates the school. In the mornings it makes it alittle chilly, but as the day progresses it starts to warm up. The school is K-12 however they have a different system for grades which I have not really caught on to yet. I am in "curso III C" which I think is similar to 11th grade because there is one more year ahead of us. We do not change classrooms for the classes unless we are going to one of the few sciences or elective classes. There are 3 homerooms for year III and my homeroom has about 20+ students. I have meet many new people however with everyone having similar names and with people coming up to me constantly it has been hard to remember them. The classes I am in a pretty good, some are a little boring, but I am understanding a lot which is not what I expected. My math class today was very easy because it was something I had already learned. The teacher student relationship is nothing in comparison to the US. It is a more friend to friend basis the relationship and the students and teachers have jokes with each other which I could not picture having with most teachers in the US. The school day starts at 8 and goes until 430 every day except Wed when it then ends at 120. Extremely long days. The schedule goes 2hrs of class 15 min break 2hrs 15 min break 1hr then 1hr for lunch then 2hrs then school is done. I'm getting used to it. There are no after school sports I don't think, but people stay after playing "futbol" and basketball.