First Day of School! First Day of School!

If you didn't gather from the title, today was day one in the Sotogrande International School. Overall we felt extremely welcomed and really enjoyed getting to know all of the new people! The school is split up into 2 main parts, elementary and secondary and so McKenna, Emilie and Jess didn't see much of Lars but when we did he had the largest grin on his face, as did we all!

(Classic First Day of School Picture)

At the end of the day we all shared a high and a low of the day, and believe me it was hard to pick just one high! A few things we noticed that is different is the use of phonetic spelling. Each time they ask us how to spell a word we need to sound out each letter and many kids don't recognize the letter name. For example if they asked how to spell cat we would say ka-ah-ta, rather than C-A-T. Another thing we noticed is the amount of free time the students get. They get many breaks throughout the day and it's amazing the amount of focus they come back with after their time outside. Finally when they go to their Spanish classes, the teachers speak only Spanish to them rather than in America often they get taught in Engish and then Spanish. These are all very interesting things to continue observing throughout our time here.

Tonight we get to go to our first dinner out and explore a little bit. We are all extremely excited to get to know this city we are about to call home for the next 8 weeks! To end today's post and begin our exploring, "A donde fueres, haz lo que vieres"- To where you go, do the things you see.

(The view from our balcony)