Classes at Boston Latin School and flight home (Friday 18th of October) posted by Lélia and Daniel

Interview of a Boston Latin School student

Kim, a Boston Latin School student, agreed to answer our questions about the American school system.

Which are the positive and the negative points of the American school system and of your school?

I like the fact that in the United States we have a lot of different school subjects, we have therefore many choices. The school tries to make us happy with activities such as sports and art clubs. Taking care of the garden is an opportunity to think about something else.

But there are also some negative aspects. The atmosphere is tense because we have too much work. That’s the reason why the subjects are very large.

We need to excel to go to good universities and have interesting jobs opportunities. We have to separate ourselves from the other candidates. That’s the reason why we are afraid of the future and have a lot of pressure. Unfortunately we can just learn one foreign language.

What do you want to change at your school?

At my school I want to change many things such as the atmosphere, because the pressure to excel is scary. Furthermore some teachers should go further into their subjects instead of broadening many different topics. The teachers teach us too many different themes superficially instead of concentrating much more on the aspects of one subject. 



What we did today

The last day! ( 😞 )

Time flue so fast, we all didn't see this day coming. But all good things have an end! So today, we went to school with our correspondents as we did on our first day here. Each one of us went in the different classes of our correspondents. Althought we were very tired, it was interesting to see one more time how the school days are in Boston. But, since it was the last day, we (french students) were allowed to leave school at 11.30 after lunch to go shopping one last time. For lunch we got to eat the same food as our correspondents at the cafeteria: pizza , potatoes and some salad. That was, I gotta say, much better then the food we used to have. So after that, all of us could go out of the school and do what they wanted. Some of us went shopping, others stayed at school, others were just hanging out together. At 2.15 we had to be back at school so that our correspondents could pick us up. Then we has another  two hours freetime with our correspondents where we could do one last thing with them. But at 4.40 we had to be at the airport and it was already time to go. After long (and hard) goodbyes, checking in and waiting, we went on the plane and had a 6 hours flight ahead of us. Most of us watched movies or slept because we were very tired. We landed in Paris without any problems, the flight didn't even have turbulences. Then we waited for our train to Strasbourg, got the train and the two hours passed very quickly. We were very tired when we arrived but also very happy to see our family and friends again. After thanking our amazing teachers for making this trip even possible and spending so much of their time for us, we all went home. We were all very sad it was over, I think, but we can look foreward to February, when our correspondents are coming to Strasbourg!