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“In Norway the testing was a lot harder. . .you weren’t allowed to make up a test,” said Rappahannock County student Arne Utne. Barrazzouk said that she also found the studies easier. “I was amazed that in this school you can correct a test for extra credit and if you fail it, you can always go back and study more and re-take it... we could never do that in Pakistan.” Baig agreed, “my school at home was a lot more strict, and everything was a lot more difficult.”
Students from Pakistan noted that they were amazed at the relationships between the teachers and their students. “I was really shocked . when I heard students talking and joking with their teachers,” said Berrazzouk. “We would get expelled for something like that.”
Christensen noted that in Austria things were less strict than in America. “We definitely have less rules,” she said adding, “in my school we call our professors by their first names and we talk to them as you would talk to your friends.” Utne agreed that there were more rules in American schools. “Here you have to sigh in and sign out, everywhere you go,” he said. Utne also said that the schools in Norway did not have any sporting programs. “If you want to play a sport you have to go play a club sport,” he said, “then
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