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My first two days of school are over, which were really great. At the first day of school, there was an assembly in the stadium. This year is the 100 year-celebration of our school and I have the luck to be there. At the assembly, the teaches spoke a lot about the new school year and then the exchange student had to stand up before 1500 pupils. Oh my god!! there are two other exchange students this year.

I have every day the same subjects. My first subjects was Maths, which is really hard in English. My second period is Art, where we make something of clay (Ton). My favourite subject is leadership, where I have met very nice pupils. Some from cheerleading and some from football. In leadership we organize some school activity, like the 'dress-up day", ... Another subject is Robots, where we will built a robotic and then we have to program it, so that it can take balls and
put them in a box. It's really hard!!! The last subject is Chemistry, which is very easy, because they start at the beginning. I hope, that I will learn some new stuff.

One trimester is 12 weeks and every period is 70 minutes. After school I have two hours cross country practices. To run about 4 - 6 miles with a temperature of about 37 - 40 degree is very hard. And this every day!!!

School is here very different to Germany, it's like a big family!!
I have school from 8 o'clock to 3 o'clock and then practice till 5
o'clock. At home I have to do homework, so there isn't any relax time for me!!

On Tuesday there is back-to-school night and on the labour day (Monday in a week) there is my first race of cross country.

I hope you get some information about my school. (Philip)