First Day of School

I've just come home from the first day of school and my oh my everything is completely different here. I am in Fifth Form (equivalent of eleventh grade in the States).

Because I am a boarder I only had to go down the stairwell and I was at my first class with my Form teacher. This was almost like homeroom and I was given a list of classes to choose from. I am in Science (a mixture of chemistry, biology and physics), math(s), english, geography, and French.

Today we also had an assembly where we sang (or in my case mouthed and hummed) a song and prayed. I have never ever prayed in school before - or I guess anywhere before - but it was actually quite cute seeing all of the youngsters recite the prayer by heart.

Each day the schedule rotates and every few classes I have a short break time. Some classes (such as geography and French) are two hours, but others are only one hour.

Throughout the day I enlisted many girls to help lead me to where I needed to be. The school is actually quite large and I got lost once, but I'm sure I'll get the hang of it.

Each class had a maximum of twenty students and in my French class there were only four of us! I don't know if I prefer smaller or larger classes (where you can slink to the back and not be noticed).

My favorite class by far was Science mainly because the teacher is so calm yet he knows how to control the class. There were only about six of us and when we did an experiment where we burned magnesium he was very helpful and attentive. I loved the hands-on approach (I would go months without doing an experiment in my science class) and I hope some of the other classes that I didn't have today will be like that.

Now I'm off to my second supper at Longridge. So far so good!