by Clara Modlin
“I’m thinking of a…thing,” my sister says.
My parents, my twin sister, and I are playing 20 questions. I am seven years old.
“Hmm,” I say. “Is it a leopard?”
“Yep,” my sister says. “Your turn!”
This happened all the time when my sister and I were younger. I would refer to something that we’d talked about [...]
by Clara Modlin
Lately I’ve been thinking about the differences in between school systems. Where I used to live, France, the teachers were strict. They did not hesitate at calling us stupid, idiots, or (and this was not rare) mentally retarded. The system was rigorous. We had a college-type schedule, having two hours of French on Monday, none on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, or Thursdays, and then three on Fridays.
If you were absent for a test, there were no retakes. You just got an ‘absent’ on your report card. The schools weren’t afraid about holding people back. ‘Left-backs’ were much more common in France then they are here; the French feel no sympathy for you in school.
As you can see, the American school system is almost a complete opposite of this system. Teachers here don’t call you idiots; they manage to imply that you could have done a better job and they are disappointed in you. They are much nicer in general. My meanest teacher here, in this country, is nothing compared to my math teacher in France….
by Clara Modlin
There are a lot of pairs of twins at B-CC. I’m half of an identical one. I know around five or six pairs. As far as I know, there may be a group of triplets.
Now I know what you’re thinking. You’re going to say, “You’re a twin? That’s so cool! I suspected [...]
