Bloomington High School South, The Gothic, 1975, Page 12

Description:	I find the pupils at South very friendly, and I amsure that the next AFS student will like South and itsteachers.Some of the first things I noticed in the United Stateswere the big cars, wide highways, and the flat country.I arrived in August and found the weather in Bloomington much like that in Norway, except that the air ismuch damper. In the winter we have a lot of snow andusually a lot of cold weather. We do a lot of skiing. Thewinters here are not as cold, so I cant ski.I find the prices over here lower in comparison toNorway. The main reason for this is that we have toimport so many of our products. The hospitals are anexception. If you are a Norwegian citizen, you donthave to pay to go to the hospital. Its paid for by taxes.When going to a doctor in Norway, you have to payonly $2 or $3, while here you have to pay at least $8.We dont practice our high school sports as much asstudents do here. Our basketball team in Norway onlypracticed twice a week; here we practice every day. Wedont have football at all, but soccer is the popularsport in the autumn. Skiing, skating, and ice hockey arepopular sports in the winter.In my high school I couldnt choose the subjects Iwanted to study. I could choose, however, which line Iwanted to go into. There are four lines to choose from:language, math, nature, and Latin. Students go into oneline and stay in that class for the whole time.The school schedule is different also. We have 10-minute breaks between classes, and our teachers cometo us instead of us changing rooms and going to theteachers. Last year I had 13 classes which met for 50minutes. We dont have school lunches so we have tobring our own each day. We also dont have lockers sowe have to bring our school books every day. In Norway I had much more homework.I have found the people here quite like the peopleof Norway, and I really appreciate the great welcome Ihave received here with the big signs and everything.UJTUNOrZJT\
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Collection:	Bloomington High School South

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