VIVISYEARABROAD ♡ ♡ ♡ : A Day In School

Normal School Day (Thursday)

This is how my school life looks like J I picked Thursday as example.

I am in senior 1 – gao yi, most of the students are 16 too. We are in Class No. 5, but we only have like 1 or 2 lessons per day (+morning the lesson) with our classmates.

Arts, Music and Ballet Class are with the juniors. They are 13/14…

The Chinese lessons we have in our small classroom.

Sometimes we also just stay there instead of having class with class No. 5 because it’s extremely boring and in the small classroom we can use our phone :D Or we stay on the sportsground in the sun and chat with the students who have PE class :) Or we just stay at home and come to school for our Chinese lessons.

We only have one Chinese teacher that comes every time, the others tend to forget us or to have ‘important meetings’ sometimes. The Junior students change their schedule like every week so we also have these lessons very irregularly which sucks a little. School is very boring anyways, but I’m very grateful for the Chinese lessons, I’d actually like to have more, 8 isn’t really much…

Carola and I have school 5 days a week from 07:00 to 18:00. The first lesson is morning class-> learn by yourself. From 07:50 to 18:00 all students then follow their schedule.

The Chinese students have school 6 ½ days a week and they have evening classes. Which means after dinner, at 19:00 they have school again until 20:30.

In School Carola and I are allowed to have our cell phone but only in the small classroom. We are not allowed to use it in the big classroom or listen to music there. The Chinese students are not allowed a cell phone at all!

In school we must wear our school uniform, if we wear the school’s jacket we are allowed to wear our own shirts, but only with a little cleavage! And also we’re not allowed to wear earrings or to paint our nails.

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6:00: get up

6:40: drive to school by car

7:00 morning lesson: do homework/ learn by yourself. I usually study Latin or Chinese or just read a book (or stay at home)

7:50-8:40: Lesson in Big Classroom with Class No. 5 – some subject we don’t understand -> Chinese, Latin or reading (or stay at home)

8:50-9:40: English Lesson in Big Classroom with Class No. 5 – some subject we don’t understand -> Chinese, Latin or reading (or stay at home)

10:05-10:55: Chinese Lesson

11:05-11:55: Chinese Lesson

After the 4th lesson I usually go the my grandmother (father’s mother -> nainai) with my sister. She lives only about 3-5 minutes away from school. The lunch break is extremely long I think. Most students take a nap then, I try to do that to when I eat at the grandmother’s place. But it’s still kind of strange to me...

Every Friday Carola and I eat together, we like to go to a noodles place, we basically go there every Friday, it’s SO delicious !!

Sometimes I also have lunch with my classmates, friends or other foreigners (there are about 20 of us here in Chengde, most of hem in their 20/30-ies)

14:10-15:00: Taiji with our guardian – Miss Jiang (we only have Taiji if there is no ‘important meeting’ or too much traffic or other important stuff :’D. so we usually just stay in the dance room and listen to music, because there is a sound system)

15:10-16:00: Music with the Juniors (the teacher always wants us to sing and teach German/Italian/ English songs to the students -.-)

16:10- 18:20: Athletics , Sports Team <3<3<3

If I go by bus I go that way :)