First Day of School

Today was my first day of school. For about the first half of the day Claire, Andrea, and I worked on making our schedule. It was extremely complicating. Our principal printed out a sheet with what classes we could take each period. In this school there are 2 groups for each grade, each group stays together and they stay in the same class for most classes and the teachers change. Since we are exchange students and don't need the same requirements we have the option to do different classes in different grades. Each day is a different schedule which is very different from my school. Classes started out great with my Public Speaking English class. This class was very talkative ( in Spanish not English) and the teacher usually replied to them in English. The students were very nice! I was very excited when I told the teacher my name and he said in Spanish it is Camilla not Camille, so in SPANISH I explained that in my Spanish and Italian classes at my school in the US my name is Camilla too. The class was impressed with my Spanish (it wasn't hard to say though). The teacher told me I did good and was impressed I spoke right away, for most of the time students speaking another language are very shy and scared to talk (this compliment was the highlight of my school day). I then went to the computer lab with Andrea for our free period. After we had lunch. At this school you can't bring your own lunch you must buy it at the school, but you can go home for lunch or go out to eat. When people are done with lunch they hang out in a classroom. Here I spoke with several new friends who were very helpful with Spanish and we all laughed a lot since Andrea, Claire, and I didn't know much. After was philosophy, which was horrible. I literally had no idea what the teacher said the whole class. I finished the day with P.E., Which Claire, Andrea, and I all have together. We played volleyball, which was fun. One big difference I noticed in my Spain school is they call their teachers by their first name. 

After school I had toast with Nutella and then I went with Sonia to basketball practice. We took the bus and it made me happy to see how easy it is. Hopefully I will eventually be able to take the bus on my own. Once we got to our stop though, it was a REALLY long walk (I'm writing this during her practice). For now the whole Spanish thing is very overwhelming at times, and extremely frustrating when I don't understand. I feel bad that everyone has to keep explaining what different words mean. I keep reminding myself though, that I will eventually laugh at how oblivious I am to everything with my small knowledge of Spanish now.

Here is my schedule. All classes that comp are circled are basically a study hall, so I can go to the computer lab or library. Tuesdays and Thursdays I have nothing after lunch so I can go home or stay at school! The A's and B's mean which group I'm for the Bachillerato 1 grade, I think the ones without letters are classes in another grade.