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I’ve been in all of my HL classes now. At the school we’re supposed to call all of the teachers by their first names, which at the moment seems strange to me going from my entire school life of ‘Mr’ and ‘Ms’ to just ‘Hello Sam!’. Though I think it’s nice, it’s a more friendly and informal way since we see these teachers more than just in the classroom.
I have Geography with a man named Alun Wood (also Environmental Systems with him). He’s been teaching at the school for fifteen years and is the only Geography teacher. Our class is about double the size of the one I had for the last two years with nineteen people at the moment- with the IB people change around for the first few weeks if they think they’ve chosen the wrong subject so it has the possibility to change.
English Literature is with the head of faculty for Language A, Group 1. Ruth Pickvance has been here for twelve years and worked at the UWC in Singapore for five years before that. This class has eight students at the moment which I think is a great number. For our first term we’ll be studying World Lit, novels and plays that are in translation to English.
· One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich – Solzhenitsyn (Russia, novella)
· Blood Wedding – Lorca (Spanish, play)
· Medea – Euripides (Greek, novel)
Bring it on!
History European is with a lady named Kate Vincze who has been teaching at the school for thirteen years. She moved here from Hungary with her husband who is one of the Physics teachers and her son (Balazs) who is actually in my house. He’s grown up at the school and is now attending it as one of the students, just moving from his parents’ house to the dorm room (though I’m pretty sure he stills brings Kate his laundry). The class is at about eighteen right now, which is a good number with so many nationalities of people from the places that we’ll be studying.
So from what I know right now all of my teachers seem very experienced with the IB and the school and I’m looking forward to getting started! :)
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