I had a great excitement after knowing that I'll be studying at Wellsville High School and it does really exciting after I got here. I found almost everything is different. There's no school uniforms, no canteens but cafetaria instead, there's walking through different classes, many interesting extracurriculars, etc. Wellsville High School is not a big school, but it never wipes out my willingness to learn and socialize into the new things.
I was all nervous at first, because I've never experienced being an exchange student, or simply moved to different schools. Besides, I realized that most cultures would also be different in here, so I have to be extra careful to prevent any possible misunderstanding. It was so challenging!
The classes I'm taking at WHS are:
1. Media Technology-Other, which I think is a fun class and I love the teacher, Mrs. Rottinghaus. I started this class in the beginning of the year and we got started by learning about google drive and it's features which are really cool. Continued by learning Ms. Word, Excel, Integrating Word and Excel, Web Design, Graphic Design, Prezi, and Ms. PowerPoint. I've been familiar using Microsoft Office since mid school. Anyhow, in this class I found out that there are many more features that I've never noticed are existing which actually are really useful. I'm so happy to be in this class!
2. US History, which somewhat I get lost in, because I never specifically learned about American history before. Fortunately, I have a great teacher, Mr. Keltner, who always makes the lessons be easier to be learnt.
3. Anatomy and Physiology, which is ok. I learned about human's body physiology and its anatomy functions related into human's body systems. My anatomy teacher, Mr. Long is pretty cool, because he often shares foods in the class!
4. Pre-calculus, WHICH IS MY MOST FAVORITE CLASS! I personally like math, besides, this class is really fun with a really cool teacher, Mr. Chaney, who always makes sense when teaching. I've loved math since elementary school but I lost that passion during early 10th grader..but now I'd say I can't love anything more than math -just saying what I really feel-.
5. Advanced Chemistry, which I just moved in for the second semester. I was in PE class but I quit because I got an eye accident. I got into Culinary Essential class but I decided to move to chemistry class because I'm pretty sure the lessons I'd learn in this class will be more useful when I go back home.
6. Seminar, SSR, and Lunch. Seminar is a kind of free time given to the students to do homework or projects. I'm not sure what SSR stands for, but I know it's a silent reading time where students are officially required to read a book, novel, newspaper or magazines silently, thus followed by lunch time. Here's a picture of school lunch that I just took today (taco salad):
7. English III, which is kind of rough class because I need to learn the real english, including its appliances in real life. I am often still struggling on basic english even. However I'm having good time in this class so far and this class has a lot been improving my english.
8. Band, which is my second favorite class! I'm moving to clarinet for the second semester and I'm really excited for that. I've never been playing clarinet before, or even read music, so I need to learn from the really basic. To be honest it was hard..gladly I had teacher and friends who always help me. I've been able to play some songs and I'll play trio with my 2 other friends for an ensemble band in April at Baker University.
Learn something new is always fun, that's why I'm also taking some interesting extracurriculars including FBLA, cross country, scholars bowl, and forensics.
I have had great time in WHS this far. If only I could, I absolutely would come back here for another years!💖
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