I think I can start making regular blog posts now!
So be happy and excited because I'm coming back. It's been a busy two months. But you can smack me later because I should've been posting after Saki and Eva had gone to bed but yeah, I suppose with everything going on my life has been very busy. I was wandering around the house when I was on the computer last night because I am in the habit of getting off the computer every ten to fifteen minutes to see if the exchange students were alright but now I have to break that habit and just stay on the computer or try to entertain myself.
To be honest, all I want to do right now is just sort of...
Yep, blame me for being lazy and not writing but I wanted to use that gif because it's adorable.
Anyway, lets catch you up.
Is there anything interesting that has been going on? No, not really apart from I got 100% on a Science assignment I worked really hard on and I'm really proud of it so I was bragging a lot today and last night.
Now something I've learnt with the exchange students over here was, we have different school times that you do, so lets explain the Australian school system in a little more detail and you can call us Australians even more weird even though I think the world think we're the most weird country in the fucking word.
Hashtag Australian Problems
So, we start the day off at 8:32am on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday.
"But Willow, that's only four days, you only get four days of school?"
Man, I wish. I'll explain it a little later.
We start the day off at 8:32am, as I already said, then we have a second bell at 8:40am, by this point we're already in class, whatever it may be, Maths, English, Cooking, Science. You need to be in class in that point of time otherwise you get a deTENTION. Classes first period run for 62 minutes, which always seem to drag.
We then have about two to three minutes to get to our next class by the bell, which sounds at 9:42am. Then the next class starts, English, Maths, German, Cooking. Whatever class, you need to be in it, normally the teacher is a little late to open the door sometimes on very rare occasions but yeah. This class runs for 62 minutes just as the first period goes for.
On Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays we have 'Form' which is Home-Room, this is where we get notices, permission slips, extra information about the school's current events or news. This starts at 10:54am and runs for five minutes to my knowledge. The teachers in Form class aren't as strict and if you're not there on the bell, there's normally no punishment, although this class is still required of us, I normally don't go to Form as there's not much news that I need to know about. On Tuesdays we get a 'Clan Quiz' that goes towards our 'Clans' or 'Home Teams', whatever you want to call it. There are four clans, Gell (Me) Lucich, Dale and Martin.
Lunch is meant to start at 11:00am, giving the students 16 minutes for Lunch, this period is called Lunch One and is the first lunch period that we have.
The warning bell to tell us to start heading to class sounds at 11:16am and the actual session starts at 11:20am, which is quite a while to start heading to class it seems but it just flies by since there's so many students. The third period goes for 62 minutes, normally by this is the last period that teachers actually care about being late or not. Depending on the day I have Science, Social Studies or German.
Period four starts at 12:22pm, here the teachers don't really mind too much about being late like, three or four minutes so here you can duck off into the bathroom if you need to go without having to worry about being told off by your fourth period teachers, by this point everyone is done. Depending on the day I have Cooking, Science or Maths.
There is a 21 minute lunch break that starts at 1:24pm and ends at 1:45pm where the warning bell sounds again. This is Lunch Two and the longer of the two lunches.
Session five, aka Hell. The last stretch until hometime. This period starts at 1:50pm but doesn't really truly start until about 2:00pm, that is when the teacher actually settles down the class, well, normally anyway. Here everyone is just fucking done with school and we're all ready to head home, however, I have to wait through a 62 minute session of German, Cooking, English or Social Studies. Luckily for me, my two worst days, Monday and Tuesday end with subjects I actually like, German and Cooking so this is normally the highlight of our lesson.
So that's Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays for you.
Oh wow Willow, why blog about school, it's not even interesting what the fuck.
Eh.
The sessions on Wednesdays are less time.
School starts ten minutes later to allow the teachers more time for meetings. There is also no Form on this day and that is where the times are fixed.
Warning: 8:42am
Period One: 8:50am
Period Two: 9:52am
Lunch One: 10:54am
***Resume normal school times***
Apparently you guys have longer lunches which is different, we have time to eat between classes if we please but we almost never do unless we really need it. It's actually sort of shame if you walk around between classes and eat, it's embarrassing and I have no idea why.
Like, if we walk around with teachers, talking to them, everyone assumes that you're a smart kid and actually want to do well at school which isn't a common thing.
We have three levels of schooling.
Primary School. (Kindergarten to year 7)
High School. (Year 8 to Year 12)
University and TAFE (Year 13 to whatever you study, this is optional)
All up our schooling takes about 14-20 years off our lives, yay for school and the best years of our lives!
So that's our school system for you.
Happy Tuesday everyone, I'm off to take out the rubbish and do stuff on twitter.
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