Students have written a few comments with their impressions on various aspects of the exchange. More will follow soon.
Jojo Olsen writes about the school:
"La Nativité is very very different to say the least. It is quite an experience! If you would like to check it out on your own, the website is http://www.la-nativite.fr/
on google earth the address is
8, rue Jean Andréani - La Beauvalle
13097
Aix-en-Provence Cedex 2
The first huge difference is the hours of the school days. They start school at 8:00 and end at 6:00 everyday except for Wednesdays, which end at noon. In the main school building (with no air conditioning) is not too different. However, lights are rarely used, they have chalk boards, and probably a total of 6 computers in the entire building. The classes are a little bigger and usually have 25-30 people. There is one big playground with basketball hoops where all the gym classes take place. On the side of this playground are the bathrooms. The bathrooms do not have doors and seeing a boy use a urinal is not that big of a deal for them. They also lack toliet seats and toliet paper which has been quite difficult for the girls. Also, all of the doors are locked during school hours so the students can not go outside school grounds. There is actually a fence with barbed wire to keep students from leaving! Before school and in-between classes, everyone smokes. That is the weirdest thing for me to understand. It is a great experience for us to see how different the school life is for different cultures! We are having so much fun!"
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