My two weeks in Sun Valley

Sorry that I took so long to post, but I had so many stuff to do on this past week that I couldn’t find a time to do it.

So, let’s start it.

These couples of weeks that I pass in Sun Valley were amazing.  I learned so much and I star to see some things in other perspective.

My host family was the best I couldn’t ask for a better one. They were so thoughtful and kind I really hope to see them again.

The school was bit different from what I was used to. Starting from the free periods, they were great, but different. We could follow the schedule of our hosts or watch any class of our interest, normally I followed Meredith (my host sister) schedule, but sometimes I went in other classes.

We had 6 classes:

American Dream, which is a literature class focusing on texts, books and other types of arts that express the idea of the American dream.

History, in this case how she is an 11^th grader it’s American History specificity the Civil War.

Spanish and French, it was really funny and kind of confusing in the beginning learn another language in “English”, but after a while I got used to it.

Physics, they were basically learning the same thing that we do and I could realize that even though they use the calculator on the time the teacher also teach some of the concepts not just the formulas.

Pre Calculus , they were learning what we learn in Geometry in the second year and once again they use the calculator a lot, but the teacher also taught the concepts.

In terms of exchanging cultures I think it was the main point, because we all could explain so much about Brazil and our states and cities giving everyone a totally new point of view. Also we could break some stereotypes too not only about Brazil, but about US too.

This trip was a great learning and I’m sure everyone learn and teach something.