I literally started a new life by coming to this high school three years ago. I saw many perspectives by adapting to the school’s atmosphere and meeting new people.
It was very difficult to find a way to talk and collaborate with people in Russia. Imagine your first grade class starts with 33 students that you see every single day and you have all of them for every period you attend. Your class slowly shrinks into 20 students by 11 grade, and you eventually graduate with people who “survived” these eleven years with you. My first obstacle toward my effective learning and communication was a sort of language barrier. I tried to adapt to the way people spoke and the vocabulary they used on a daily basis. It helped me develop a way of understanding a foreign speech to me, because I only used to study “broken British” back in my Russian school.
The teaching technique here reminds me of a private school in Russia, where everyone received equal attention from a teacher and was treated fairly. At Marshall, teachers do not scream at you and lower your grades depending on what you look like and what they think about you.
In-school rules are way more strict than in my previous school. My friends commonly were able to leave the building and get to the grocery store to buy some Red Bull or cigarettes and then return before the bell rang. The way bureaucracy works in schools here amazes me.
2018-10-22