Day 1 Reflection: At YHS

For the Robert College Students
 1. Describe the most interesting moments of your day or your visit so far. 
Lunch. 

2.  What are your impressions of  YHS after watching classes all day?

Longer periods, fewer classes per day, informal dress.

3. What surprised you the most? 
 Sandwich bar at lunch.

4.   What things about YHS seem most similar to your own school?

Same classes and American teachers.

5. What things about YHS seemed most different?

Longer periods, fewer classes per day, informal dress.

6. What about the lifestyle of Yarmouth students seems most similar or different than your own? 

More fast food than in Turkey, don't eat pork.

 

7.What about the academics at YHS seem the most similar to the academics at Robert College?

Same classes.

8.  What about the academics at YHS seem the most different to the academics at Robert College?

Longer periods, fewer classes per day, informal dress.

9.  What was the favorite part of your day?

Lunch.

For the YHS Students:
 1. What have you learned so far from talking with your Turkish guest?

More about Muslim religion, food restrictions (pork), family life and family meals in Turkey.

2. What has surprised you the most?

How similar their interests are to ours'.

3.  What impressions do you have so far about how their school is either similar or different from ours?

It is more formal (dress, food, etc.), most likely because it is a private school.

4. What questions do you still have for your host student?

Um, just about what they do in their free time, and what their impressions are of the United States.

5.  Is there anything that you learned from your exchange students that might “fit” well for YHS (a program, a class activity, a schedule change)?

Not really, I think that the biggest differences between our schools are based on the fact that YHS is a public school and not private.