School in Jordan runs from Sunday - Thursday. Which to some in America may seem crazy but it doesn't feel any different. For the next 8 months we are attending Al Mashrek International School - a Private school in West Amman. We visited the school on Thursday and learned about the program and took a tour of the grounds. Mashrek is beautiful, outside it looks like a college (minus the playground). The classes here are very diverse and the teachers are beyond qualified.
On the first day I woke up at five in the morning ( 10:00 pm American time) and got ready for school. we were told to be outside ten minutes before seven because the "yellow school bus would be there exactly at seven". After having breakfast and packing a lunch we headed outside at 6:50 am - not before taking some first day of school pictures. Ten minutes went buy and the bus was not here exactly at seven... shocking I know. So we continued to wait. Forty minutes later the bus arrived - and school starts at 8:00 am sharp. Low and behold we were late to our first day of school. Mashrek has a lot of stairs- Imagine the Providence Place Mall only had stairs and you needed to get to the third floor. That's what getting to the senior school floor is like. After arriving at our school half an hour late and hiking up to the senior school floor we were directed to a big air conditioned room filled with other eleventh graders. we walked in and were asked o introduce ourselves. We then joined the group to learn about schedules and pick classes. At Mashrek there is block scheduling and in between every class is a 20 minute break. You usually have between 1- 4 classes per day depending on your schedule. On the first day we met the history and economics teacher, attended a math class, and a computer science lesson. I am beyond excited to take History and Global Politics. Our first day was great. Everyone was incredibly kind and helped us find our way. I am excited to learn within the walls of this school \not only about academics but about a part of Jordan not everyone gets to see.
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