AISB

AISB

AISB's completely mane is America International School of Bamako which school is so small, i mean a little students, i guess just 300 students from kindergarten to grade 12,(see the picture, it included teachers) but it has a lot of teachers. When i was studying one year at AISB, it was a hard experience because of language and classes. AISB all of students come from different countries, they are speaking English and French, but they have to speaking English when they have been speaking English in classes. By the way, my parents are working in their business in Africa, so it is why I was living there one year. As alway happens when I was expressing my opinion with teachers, they could not understand me cause of English. Indeed, the big problem between us was different language.


First all of experience is the obvious differece between hanguage. My first language is Mandarin; i just speaking a little English and i didn't speaking any French. That was a challenge. I had six classes per day, which are Biology, Math and Drama, Global Issues, ESL and Build Music. My favorite class is Drama with grade 11 and 12 students in class. My teacher is Ms. Crozy who is from America. We called her Ms. Crazy because she is so facetious and passionate, for sure she is so friendly. When i was in class, i didn't need to speak a lot of English; i just showed my emotion in drama, but sometimes i have to. It was an amusing class. In the end, we played an Gilmore Grill at May first. I was making the audience happy because i was playing a funny character in this drama. Audience was laughing because of me, and they loved me because my character was so funny. And we did others programs like makeup face, a hurt leg with blood.(see the pictures)This is my best score class in AISB.

Second was in biology class, we had experimented with plants and animals. My teacher who is from New Yeark. I remembered one experimentation, which is anatomize pocket. This was so scary to me because it was a first time. I saw teacher bought the pocket from frige, but it vacuumized in the bag. Then we took away the skin and opened the body, it was so cruel. It

took us three days, and those days i couldn't eat any pork. It was so hard for me, but i got many benefits from it.

In addition to language, English is my base class, so i need to learn it because biology and global issues are difficult to me. All of classes had English books so i had to add the ESL class. Other students they could speak English very well, so they had French class but i just had ESL class. My ESL instead French class. In fact, i love to learn French. My english teacher who is from Victoria, a big woman with blond hair. She is kindly. At the beginning, she was to beside me when i was in any classes, because i couldn't understand what the other teacher said in class. Her job is help me to understand it. On the other hand, i was in her class, she always going slowly and explaining patiently to me. When i have English class, i with other three students debate, one is Birama who is from South Africa, another is Qing who is from China. We were separated into two groups, i alway with Birama because he had a good mouth against them. And i always had many opinions but i couldn't explain. And Qing is so silent, and another is so active. So we were fair partners, but my group always won.(tell you a secret, a Chinese student- Qing is my boyfriend. We always got togeter and speak chinese, that's why we couldn't learn english fast. I know that wasn't good for us, but we did it. I am so regret.)

In conclusion, it was my hard experience but it was my valuable experience in Africa. I was learning many different educations between AISB and Chinese school. Now, i am missing my teachers and classmates. They are so kind and friendly, such as a family. I know they are missing me too.