School for Logan

We arrived here 2 weeks before school started that way we could settle in.  In math they are working on advanced graphing, which I have not covered yet, however they have not done almost any algebra.  In history we are covering the French and German revolutions, which I finished last year,  but the review is nice.  We also have art in which we are focusing on drawing the face and the facial muscles.  In music we are observing all the different types of music,  which is new to me.  There is also a class called current events in which we focus on past and present politics.  In the US I just read the Economist to keep up to date.  Geography is focusing on the Americas.  Last year I covered just US history so it is some of it is new.  We also have all three of the sciences twice a week and general science also twice a week since this Gymnasium (high school and middle school) focuses on the sciences.  The chemistry is more advanced than what I am used to but in the others I can keep up just fine.  I also have the go to Latin, it was that or French since in Germany you have to have 3 languages to get in to a college.  It is really hard to learn Latin in German.  English of course is fairly easy but they use British English and some of the words are different.  In German it is pretty hard.  My grammar is not perfect so it is a struggle to keep up, but it forces me to improve my German.  We also have a choice of ethics or religion.  I chose ethics for simplicities sake, it concentrates on obscure commodities like time.

One of my biggest problems is getting up so early, school starts at 7:30 and we bike to school and so have to get up at 6:40. One of the first things that I noticed was the fact that the classes move around as groups rather than just each child going to there individual class like in the US. I am also working on Algebra 2 in my spare time and am about one fourth of the way through it.  I am also watching a Great Courses video lecture series on physics entitled The Greatest Mystery in Modern Physics : Time.  Two days a year, one of which was yesterday, instead of having classes we go on a hiking day and hike around the nearby hills for a couple of hours.  The scenery is nice so even though it is a long hike it is still interesting.  That sums up my experience with school so far.