Every day began the same way, we woke up at about 6 a.m. Then we got ready, we had breakfast. Often it was eggs or coffee, the big traditional breakfast with bacons and muffins is rather cooked on the weekends as it takes longer to prepare. Then in the morning we also had to prepare our lunch boxes for lunch, most often it was leftovers from the previous day’s meal or sandwiches. But we weren’t taking many things to eat because we only had 30 minutes to eat at the lunch. When our lunch boxes were ready it was about 6 past 50 a.m, we would leave the house to drive to the high-school and we usually got there at five past seven am.
After this we would go to class at 8 a.m and start our school day.
At the end of the lessons at 3 p.m, all the students had to do an activity like sports, photography or second language for example. The student chooses an activity of his choice for one quarter, and the second he can chooses another activity. At the end of the activity we were coming home. In USA the driving licence can be delivered at 16 so the majority of the students can drive their car. At home, sometimes the student must do his homeworks but it’s really rare, they don’t have much homework, severals nights on the week, my penfriend had soccer training, and her brother and sister had sport training too. American people are very sports enthusiasts.
So, the trainings of all the siblings were not done at the same time, so when parents came home from work they would drive them to their sports practice, often it ended late so people would eat alone or with two people in the evening. Then when everybody came home, they can watch a movie together or just go to their room, the americans go to bed quite early because they have to wake up early the morning.
By Elise Desprez
