School

I go to school at l'ecole de Commerce in Monthey. I'm in the class 3D which means I am in the 'senior' year of high school. I'm the youngest in my class, with most others being 18 to 22. We have four boys in my class and all the rest girls, but that doesn't really bother me too much. All of my classmates are really nice and I'm happy to be in the class 3D.

My 13 Classes:
Economy, French, English, German, History, History of Art, Visual Arts, Ethics, Gym, Media Information, Administrative Knowledge, Psychology, and Math

My schedule will be changing after Christmas though and I won't have english or german anymore. I'll be taking more french classes and I will have to start taking all of the tests for all of my classes. Pray for me!

Class Descriptions:

Economy: This is a required class for every single student at l'Ecole de Commerce. Quite unfortunate for me though because I know absolutely nothing about economy in english let alone in french. I try and translate some of the vocabulary to english and I still don't understand what's going on. Then there's the fact that it is all Swiss economy, which I know even less about. Let's just say the class is a little on the frustrating side.

French: This class is really hard for me. Most of the time the teacher reads a text and you have to write down every word she says without grammer mistakes. They also correct grammer in texts which isn't any easier. When we are looking at texts, we are reading and analyzing extremely advanced books. This class is not too much fun and it doesn't help that the teacher absolutely hates me.

English: The one class that I actually succeed in...too bad it's going away after Christmas break. It's almost a little boring though sometimes which is the reason that they are changing it. The teacher loves me and gives me 100% on everything. It's pretty funny learning British english instead of American english. Some of the expressions I've never heard of before. I also find it funny that I speak english better than the teacher. :)

German: For this class I have two different teachers. I have no idea why, but one of the teachers is really nice and the other one is mean. The nice one is almost a little creepy though because she is always smiling, every second of every day. The nice one gives me easy german to work on, so I don't have to do 6th year german which I would epically fail at.

History: This class is like a half and half. I always know what we are talking about, but sometimes I get the details and sometimes not. I don't always understand all of it. We've mostly just been talkinga bout Hitler and the Nazis so far. I've already studied quite a bit of that, which is probably why I understand.

History of Art: This class makes me sleepy! The teacher is absolutely crazy and makes girls cry all the time. He always says if we are good and calm then we can watch a movie on Friday. Too bad his movies are more boring than his lectures. (I have no idea how this is even possible)

Visual Art: Atleast I understand and am able to take part in this class. I've never been that big of an art fan though so it's not really that fun. The teacher is kind of insane too, which doesn't really help. I passed this class though which makes me happy. :)

Ethics: I really like this class and this teacher even though I don't understand evreything that we are talking about. I feel like I'm actually doing something in this class though because the teacher writes all the notes on the board. I never thought that ethics would be one of my favorite classes, but the teacher helps quite a bit.

Gym: Gym is definitely different here than in the U.S. You actually have to sweat which I find rather disgusting. In the U.S. gym is one of my favorite classes, but here it's one of the classes I dread going to. The other day we ran suicides in gym. I don't even think that's legal in the U.S. haha. Well actually the only bad day is Mondays because we have a Nazi teacher. Fridays are so much more fun. It's kind of funny because all we basically play in gym is volleyball. I'm the only one in my whole class who got a 6 in volleyball. (6 is the highest grade you can get) My teacher told the class that in order to get a 6 you had to be as perfect as Nicole is. I don't really find this fair for all the other kids because I've been playing volleyball my whole life, but that's just how hardcore they are with grading here. We've also played pingpong, floor hockey, football, and frisbee.

Media Information: This teacher is really relaxed, but this class is sort of weird. We only have it once a week for an hour. Each week a different person in the class goes in front of the class and presents three recent news articles. They explain the articles and then the class discusses different issues in the news. I haven't had to go yet, but I don't think it should be too difficult.

Administrative Knowledge: I'm not sure I translated the name of this class very well, but I'll explain what we do in the class anyway. This is another class that we only have once a week and it's really not even a class. We've learned about different types of insureance coverage which is sort of hard for me to learn in french, but it's definitely not the hardest class.

Psychology: My calss is taking 2nd year psychology and it's difficult. The tacher is really nice and all, but she is really smart and uses really difficult vocabulary that I don't always understand. I've never taken psychology at all before, so that doesn't help much either.

Math: I thought math in english was horrible....well here it is five million times worse. The teacher is super weird and never writes anything down. He just sas out loud the problems and how you do them. He also refuses to answer any questions of anyone in the class if you don't understand. My class is doing some form of advanced calculus and I've never seen any of it before. Instead of being easy like it should be because it's just numbers, its harder than learning chinese...

I'll update how shcool goes after Christmas break when I actually start taking tests and school starts getting serious. I'm not going to lie, I'm a little intimidated and scared...