Let the classes... begin

Classes have officially started, (well they started on monday but i've only just got round to writing this). So classes have officially started! I have some pretty cool teachers, although monday was odd. It wasn't normal timetable because they wanted us to go to every class on one day so each one was 30 minutes long. Now teaching a whole lesson in half an hour isn't the easiest. Especially starting the whole course... so I can't exactly tell you much about the subjects. What I can tell you is all of my teachers achievements, with all due respect, I can now say which of my teachers have degrees, which have been to other countries to volunteer and which graduated from a UWC... So I guess it was a productive lesson, for them. 

Only one teacher has creeped me out so far, an English teach. I don't know where he came from, nor who or what he was. Basically there's this party on the first night every year called the culture shock party, and this english teacher was standing at the back, not saying anything and dressed in clothes that wouldn't have been out of place on downtown abbey. After speaking to him I can confirm he's lovely, just at that moment it was slightly un-nerving.

A lot will be happening in the next couple of weeks, I had wanted to go climbing on sunday but there's a big football game between first years and second years. I haven't received my GCSEs yet... my parents are sending them to me (don't want them reading them first). Anyone who doesn't know what GCSEs are, there are exams you need to take to go to university, those exams are called A-levels. To do A-levels you have to do GCSEs, so i'm getting my results soon... I hope. Of course, all my friends have theirs, and, as usual most conversations went like this:

Me: How did you do in your GCSEs? 

Friend: Not that well, but better than I thought I guess....

Me: I'm sure it wasn't that bad, what did you get?

Friend: 6A*s, 4As and a B

Well, I may as well just leave now.

Today (friday) was an amazing day, in both my social A and spanish classes we met 2 members from the 'Seri tribe'; a tribe native to mexico, it was great finding out all about their lives and how they live. There are about 900 members of the tribe left, they also speak their own language, only about 300 people in the world know this language. Possibly the most interesting was finding about these sort of baskets they make, it's such an interesting process they go through, and because of the process it takes months and even years to make them. The baskets are so tight that you can hold water in them... it's insane to think this whole other culture lives with so few people knowing about them. Their language is unique apparently, so if it dies out then it will be gone completely!

Tomorrow i'm going on a day hike of about 8 miles, then in the evening there's a party called the 'patio party' so that should be interesting... 

Jake