Ken Stimpson - Wednesday, June 5th

Spent most of today in classes, observing how things work here.  Mr. O’Neill, our contact at the school, had us sit in on two of his Geography classes so that his kids could ask us questions.  It really is fascinating when you realize how many preconceptions other people have about the US, California in particular. “Is it like High School Musical over there?”  “Are all the girls cheerleaders?”  Sounds funny to HTH students.  The kids here have crazy schedules – 13 classes and up to 17 teachers on a weekly rotation; some don’t even know the names of all their teachers, much less where to go off the top of their heads.  When they heard that we have the same 4-5 teachers every day, without fail someone would say “That sounds boring.”  They just couldn’t grasp right away that it would be new content every day.