My First Week in School by Zander

In Granada, Spain, I started going to the local high school in Churianna de la Vega. Here, like New Zealand, most young people smoke cigarettes and or weed. One of my friends from school is addicted to cigarettes. When he hasn't had a cigarette in a while, his hands shake. He smokes in the bath room during recess. There is also a lot of cheating in homework and tests. In almost all my classes, people do not do their homework at home. They copy off one of their friends completed work in school. In my sister's science class, she had a test on the periodic table. Everyone in the class was cheating and looking at note cards or they had written down the periodic table on their desk in pencil. It is hard to not cheat, because the people that cheat get better grades then the good kids. So, it is really tempting to cheat because it will get you good grades. Mia said that she did not cheat.School in Spain is really difficult, not only because it is in a different language, but because it is so different then what I am used to in America.

The teachers are still using the old chalk boards instead of white boards. In America, the teachers use smart boards and white boards. It is really annoying in my school, because if you in the front of the room, then the chalk dust always gets in your eyes. All the students are issued their own lap top computer that they can bring home. I think that that would be pretty sweet and I hope that I will get one soon. It is also much harder to memorize the schedule here because of all the differences in every days classes. Every day, there are different classes and I haven't gotten used to them yet. My first week of school in Spain has been really hard to get used to, because of the language and curriculum differences. I hope that it will get better.