First of all: 5:45 is DEFINETLY too early to get up, especially if the times difference to your home is 9 hours & your family & friends get up when its like 10 PM at your place and you want to talk to them every night.
Wednesday, the 17th of August was my first day of school. Well, lets just say that school is not my favorite thing to do…
The school is not as difficult as in Switzerland but not less hard. The teachers give lots of homework, for me it takes even more than 2 hours a day cause I have to translate stuff etc and they have way more tests and quizzes than we do. I had my first maths test on friday, so at the 3rd day of school and tomorrow (monday) my first U.S. history test. U.S. history is actually my favorite subject because its pretty easy & there are nice people. The dress code of my school is really strict, u're not allowed to wear shorts which are shorter than your arms when they're hanging down, u can't wear spaghetti tops and much more, its a really annoying.
I get it why, but its like 35 degrees at 11 AM and you have to sit in your classroom with long pants and that sucks cause u literally die.
I have lunch after 5th period, at like 1 PM and I always hang out with my best friend and sometimes with some other exchange students.
Every day we have the same schedule (which is kinda annoying), first I have P.E. class (physical education) which means like sports. I took Aerobics. After that I have Algebra II (which would be easier if I would know all the words in English), then I got Biology. After 10 minute break there's U.S. history, then there's mixed chorus which is okay, but we're singing classical stuff & that sucks. Then I got lunch and after that there's English and that's probably the hardest class for me cause we're just writing journals and reading old texts and stuff & I'm just sitting there like: well, I don't know what u guys are talking about.
After English I have cross country practice, but the sport depends seasonal, so I'll change to basketball in winter and to track and field in Spring if that works.
Tomorrow starts my first cross country race and I'm so excited for it.
This weekend was the Mountain Festival in our town, its kinda like a fair where there are many rides and little shops and stuff.
Yesterday there was an EF Orientation meeting for people who spend their time in Bakersfield and other cities in Kern County. I met some other people, it was fun but kinda boring.
My host family and their cousins planned many trips with me, we'll go to San Diego on september 3rd, 4th and 5th because of my birthday, and in November we'll visit San Francisco because of my host sisters and her cousins birthday.
Btw there are some links on the left side next to this post where u get to the blogs of some of my friends who are in their exchange years too, visit them if you want to.