The Best Things are Worth Waiting For

Despite all the delays and setbacks going here, we finally arrived. A short sleep after, we met up and took the train to school. I was nervous and excited for my first day here. I looked forward to learning during their classes even if I couldn’t understand.

For first period, I sat in an architecture class that had a project due that period and no one is even panicking or stressed. the professor wasn’t even mad despite some students were only half way done. All the students kept being cheerful and positive while doing their projects. At first i thought they were just procrastinating but they weren’t. They were being productive while talking with friends. I never imagined a positive and optimistic environment in school without the stress.

The next period, students were reviewing for a test and it wasn’t just a student excluding themselves from the class to concentrate but a noisy but productive break where they go in groups and discuss. The student ambassadors and buddies helped us and treated us like classmates. I asked my seatmate if learning English was hard. He replied saying that it was hard but manageable. I saw the look of willingness to learn the language and them, the students there, going out of their way to talk to us and help us understand their culture still leaves me in awe.

The last period was calculus. I was surprised that the subject was not just purely discussion. The class spent half the period for discussions and the other half for answering questions by group. The group works aren’t the type that one person solves while another tried to answer the question and the rest just copy or talk. The cooperation and the bond between them is strong and I felt like they were family. They were not fighting for top honors, they were helping each other achieve it together.