More school Information

I thought I would also give some more detailed information about my school!

My friends!
As my school is the school for high ranking navy officers there is also a group of kids who come from other countries and are studying and living in Peru while their parents finish their terms abroad. That's my group of friends really, obviously there are peruvian friends too! But my best friends at school are the Colombians, girl from Chile and some peruvian friends. We are a really nice group and I really do get to learn alot more about Latin America, hearing about the differences between Peru and Colombia, Chile and Ecuador! I sorta love it.
Also the concept of friends changes a little bit between exchange students. Through this exchange I really get to see that other parts of the United States really have their own little culture! Between us (the majority of the exchangies are American though there is one girl from Belgium, a guy from France and from Switzerland) we talk alot about differences everywhere, it's interesting to hear about! Also is that I am seeing honestly for the first time that you can be friends with people who you have large differences with, between the exchange students we are all very different but are sort of insta-friends which I love because I do get to see this side of the concept of friendship (my friends back home have mostly huge similarities with because that's how we met or bonded, and here it's purely experiances that unite us!).

About school system-
Here there is no middle school. there are six years of primary school and then there are five years of secondary. Also the school year, because they are in the other hemisphere have summer when we have winter. So their school year is ACTUALLY a year, it's an odd change! So we are ending at the begining of December, and our final quarter begins next week!!
Also something that I have noticed is that the learning/teaching methods are very very different. In my classes the majority of the distribution of knowladge is from copying powerpoints or the chalk board or copying down what the teacher says. At my school there is very little homework and very little actual work. To learn in the subject you really have to get it and remember it the one time it's been stated in class. There is also a general lack of respect I would say for the teachers, there is so much laughter, yelling and just talking during class, not to mention talking back to the teachers (big schock for me, totally different change in atmosphere for a class room).
Class Schedual:

Monday Tuesday Wednsday Thursday Friday
OBE COMMUNICATION MATH HISTORY BIOLOGY
eNGLISH COMMUNICATION MATH HISTORY MATH
ENGLISH RELIGION HISTORY COMM. MATH
PHYSICS OBE OBE OBE OBE

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MATH BIOLOGY PERSON MATH ART
COMM. BIOLOGY PHYSICS MATH ART
COMM. HISTORY PHYSICS CIVICS RELIGION

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HISTORY PE ENGLISH ENGLISH ART
PERSON PE ENGLISH ENGLISH ART



p.s. It looks like there is a very high chance I WILL be able to go to college in Peru!