It's official: Barron and I have the absolute worst luck when it comes to transportation to get to Sutton/Surrey for our school volunteering sessions! Our last train was mysteriously canceled today, so we had to navigate our way on the bus system + walking instead. We rolled in at a classy 45 minutes late, but no worries! It was kind of a wrap-up day anyways.
We started out the morning by observing a P.E. class. It was interesting because the P.E. teacher explained to us about how sports are not really competitive in England high schools... it's more about the participation in the sports instead of the competing amongst one another and having the sports-related school pride. Interesting!
Then we met up with Mr. Clem Parrish, with whom we've been working since the beginning. We basically had an hour-long conversation with him about what we've found when it comes to the UK, and how we feel like we've been introduced to what it's like to be out of our "American Bubble." I feel so lucky to be having this experience, and it definitely makes me want to travel to other places to get even more worldly experiences!
Additionally, we talked about the UK government, health care, Americanization, etc etc... It was definitely a worthwhile talk and it was nice to reflect upon all the different ideas we've been thinking so far since being here.
We left the school by noon and navigated our way back through the crazy bus system. At one of the train stations, there were six different monitors that had the station and train times listed, and the only one we needed to see was blacked out for some reason. Bizarrely horrible luck!!!
We made it back for lunch at Bede and I worked on my final 3 essays for the majority of the afternoon. I've finished two so far, and they were supposed to be due tomorrow at 5pm, but got pushed back a day thanks to Nadia's request! It has been so much academic work to keep up with, but I know that I will be thankful to have these reflection pieces when all is said and done!
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