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And he is quite impressed with the “easy life” American students have in comparison to his Japanese peers. “We spend more time studying and even have school on Saturday,” he said, adding that he was surprised to see students working while still attending school. “Studying is the most important part of our time,” he said.
Each student has found schools and school subjects are different around the world.
Isabella said that though she has o understood most of her new teachers, subjects are often taught differently or presented differently. “Sometimes I get confused,” she said with a smile.
Emma remarked that Swedish school, lasting just nine years, was “more strict. We are not allowed to speak in the classrooms and we work much harder for a good mark.” She said once she returns to her native country she will retake this year “at gynasisum, what you call high school.”
Sports are not commonplace in Swedish schools as with Japanese schools. With his new found free time, Ken will play soccer for Rappahannock. “I have played for six years in Japan, year round,” he said with pride.
Ken is not the only new soccer player the Rappahannock team will welcome. Francisco Vicente of Seville, Spain has joined the team, also.
Moving from a city of over a million to a village the size of Washington was quite a surprise for the tall 18-year-old Spanigh high school graduate. “Whenever I go someplace with my new family,” David and Marie Davis of Washington, “I just say ‘it’s so nice, it’s so nice.”
Francisco, a senior at Rappahannock County High School, hopes to earn an American scholarship and attend a college in the United States next year.
He explained that to obtain a well-respeeted professional career in Spain, a college degree is essential. “I w'anted to come to the United States to improve my English and learn about the American people,” he said adding that our country is presented as attractive and interesting in his native Spain.
He said he chose the U.S. over nearby western Europe due to his
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