My second day of school

Yesterday was my second day in school. First we had in our homeroom and after that we had every class over the time of 45 minutes. Math is really boring because the most things I did before. They use the same calculator as we used in Germany! Foods is really interesting. We have to work on our own and have a few weeks for one theme. In ELA we started to read a novel called 'the curious incident of the dog in the night-time'. The questions of our teacher are not demanding at all! And in Art we had to do Art Cards. Our teacher gave us the size for the cards (in inches; usually they have meters AND inches). We had to rip something out of magazines and next week we have to stick that on the card. Art every single day...that is another thing I have to get used to.
But yesterday I found the rooms better. That is an advantage when there is only one staircase you can use and when you only have four rooms you have to find. :D And I never thought that I understand the teachers; but I understood nearly everything they told us. :) We can eat during the classes and I saw some pupils ate chewing gum during the lessons and the teachers did not say anything...But we have no 'big' breaks. Between two periods are only 5 minutes to change the room. How to go to the washroom then?!
Everyone has got his own table and they are really small. But all students only have a pen and a file on their tables (except me :D). The papers have 3 holes, not 2 or 4 like in Germany...That is really stupid!
The teachers do not let us go before the bell rings; but they also do not teach us after the bell rang.
In every subject we write 8 exams (or something like that). The Canadians have to collect credits for their classes because they can only graduate when they have at least 100 credits (over 3 years). Fortunately, I do not have to look after that. :) The marks are in percent. And all teachers want to know our marks from last year. And when you got the best mark in Germany, you theoretically would have 100% in Canada, I think. But I do not think that you can do it like this. :D So I made a question mark...
Everyone always tells us: Be respectful (concerning class mates, teachers and the building)! And the building is really clean! And as the school has a very good repetition all over Calgary every teacher tells us not to break any rules. When you are absent without saying it then you have to speak with the teachers and they phone your parents, and so on...
Every time you leave the school during the lessons (I have to do that for the Rotary meetings) you have to sign out in the main office. And for fees etc. there is the business office...a huge school!
And they say us what we are allowed to wear to school - clothes must cover underwear, skirts/dresses no shorter than mid tight, shirts/tops long enough to cover navel, no low cut fronts, shirts/tops/dresses must have shoulder straps; and we are not allowed to wear clothes that discriminate others...and we are not allowed to play cards! That is soo strange.
I do not like Canadian TV shows. They have no content at all...Television advertising is shorter, but they are more often.^^
Here in Calgary are a lot of squirrels. That is what I recognized yesterday on my way home for the umpteenth time. ;)