Cuadernos!

One big difference that I've noticed in school since I've been here is that their notebooks are extremely important. Teachers do weekly notebook checks, and our notebooks have to be very neat and organized... Oh, and pretty too. They love using colors to take notes!! It's kind of fun, but it's also strange for me. My notebooks at home are so sloppy, organized in a way that I understand them, even if that means no one else can. But here, they have to be so perfect! It's a lot of pressure for me, as I'm not exactly the artsy, perfectionist type. I'm used to doodling and doing scratch work in my notebooks, but here they don't do that!! If we're doing math problems and need to do some scratch work, they do it on their desks, and then erase it later!

Along with this post, I added some pictures of my notebook, so you can see what I mean. We've got some geometry, trigonometry, biology and music (finally, a language I can understand!)