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I'll join in this high school discussion (: .
I'm currently in IGCSE year 2 (that's year 11 to english people, 10th grade to americans). It's basically like GCSE, but with an I for international . At the moment, i'm 'studying' pretty hard for mock exams (lol please, they're mock exams, can't be that bad), so i'm taking a break to post here.
Now, for anyone wanting to do the IGCSEs, be prepared, 'cause they cost around 150 $. Per exam. Yeah. There are around 10 exams.
Continuing on the academic side of things, I hope my genius side of me will guide me through them (I have a .. let's say good GPA) (: , but i'll try my best. Promise.
I've been reading through this and it seems to me like some of your schools (no offense) are like satan's playground. I would hate to have some of your teachers. The one's at my school are pretty cool, although my english teacher... Way too much work. Oh, and there was this one crazy spanish teacher who got fired.
And when I hear about jock/cheerleader superiority I just get reminded of those classic american movies where cheerleaders walk around school in their skimpy uniforms and jocks are all apparently bodybuilders. We don't really have any of that, everyone gets along pretty well. OK, there are some exceptions. There are a few people in my school that I don't try to hate, I'm all for trying to befriend them, but they make it so hard. They're just SO annoying and awkward and impossible to befriend. I gave up . A cool story: There was this party at a club in Geneva, and of my friends rings someone up. About 30 minutes later, a limo comes up. WIN. We have lots of rich kids at our school. I mean, like really rich. For example, one chick gets 2000 chf per week as an allowance; kids get picked up in Ferraris, Aston Martins, Bentleys constantly.One of the consequences of going to an international school in switzerland i'm afraid. But hey, who am I to hate? Contrary to popular belief, most of these people are they nicest people you'll ever meet. Forget about the snobbishness and elitism. We haven't got that around here.
Every few weeks we get a lot of people and go to our resident paintball field (about 30 minutes away), and have a huge blast paintballing. Also, since i'm more than obsessed about cars, and so is my best friend, I take him and a few other close friends karting, followed by hitting the bars, then playing some GT5 back home. Doesn't get much better than that (: (well it does, the auto show's coming up soon, an if it's anything like last years, i'll have VIP access to many high end car brands (I have a thread or two about that from the 2011 auto show).
Hmm, what else to say? Oh, it is really easy to get good grades, the boundaries are remarkably low. As an example, I got 100 on my French IGSCE exam (I took it last year instead of this year because our teacher felt us capable), and my whole French class got an A* (or A+).
So, while I think of more stuff to say, here you go (: .
I'm currently in IGCSE year 2 (that's year 11 to english people, 10th grade to americans). It's basically like GCSE, but with an I for international . At the moment, i'm 'studying' pretty hard for mock exams (lol please, they're mock exams, can't be that bad), so i'm taking a break to post here.
Now, for anyone wanting to do the IGCSEs, be prepared, 'cause they cost around 150 $. Per exam. Yeah. There are around 10 exams.
Continuing on the academic side of things, I hope my genius side of me will guide me through them (I have a .. let's say good GPA) (: , but i'll try my best. Promise.
I've been reading through this and it seems to me like some of your schools (no offense) are like satan's playground. I would hate to have some of your teachers. The one's at my school are pretty cool, although my english teacher... Way too much work. Oh, and there was this one crazy spanish teacher who got fired.
And when I hear about jock/cheerleader superiority I just get reminded of those classic american movies where cheerleaders walk around school in their skimpy uniforms and jocks are all apparently bodybuilders. We don't really have any of that, everyone gets along pretty well. OK, there are some exceptions. There are a few people in my school that I don't try to hate, I'm all for trying to befriend them, but they make it so hard. They're just SO annoying and awkward and impossible to befriend. I gave up . A cool story: There was this party at a club in Geneva, and of my friends rings someone up. About 30 minutes later, a limo comes up. WIN. We have lots of rich kids at our school. I mean, like really rich. For example, one chick gets 2000 chf per week as an allowance; kids get picked up in Ferraris, Aston Martins, Bentleys constantly.One of the consequences of going to an international school in switzerland i'm afraid. But hey, who am I to hate? Contrary to popular belief, most of these people are they nicest people you'll ever meet. Forget about the snobbishness and elitism. We haven't got that around here.
Every few weeks we get a lot of people and go to our resident paintball field (about 30 minutes away), and have a huge blast paintballing. Also, since i'm more than obsessed about cars, and so is my best friend, I take him and a few other close friends karting, followed by hitting the bars, then playing some GT5 back home. Doesn't get much better than that (: (well it does, the auto show's coming up soon, an if it's anything like last years, i'll have VIP access to many high end car brands (I have a thread or two about that from the 2011 auto show).
Hmm, what else to say? Oh, it is really easy to get good grades, the boundaries are remarkably low. As an example, I got 100 on my French IGSCE exam (I took it last year instead of this year because our teacher felt us capable), and my whole French class got an A* (or A+).
So, while I think of more stuff to say, here you go (: .