Western-style schools have many interesting things.

Our reporter recently interviewed international students from many countries around the world and asked them to tell you what a "western-style school" is like. Because, from the first day of entering the campus, Chinese and western education has shown their own differences. Many students will come to the "first lesson" in a foreign country, which is described as novelty, fun and even unexpected.

America: Parents also send freshmen to school, and many people sharpen their heads and want to join the "fraternity".

University of Rochester, USA

In the American film "American Pie", there is a scene of freshmen entering school: freshmen enter the campus in a pickup truck or station wagon, which is full of various household appliances. Students drag the refrigerator upstairs and put the barbecue oven on the lawn. Reid, who studied at the University of Rochester in the United States, told reporters that the real scene is more exaggerated than the movie. Compared with the controversial parents in China, American universities welcome parents to escort their children to school, because many children go to the city and state where the university is located for the first time, and parents will still drive their children. But RED said it was only for freshmen. Parents of senior three students will definitely not send it.

At that time, the playground was full of private cars. Everyone carries schoolbags and drags all kinds of electrical appliances between the playground and the dormitory, while parents act as "porters". On the day of entering the school, Rhett's roommates, a family of six, marched into the campus in the early morning. The whole family moved a lot of daily necessities, such as refrigerator, microwave oven, TV and electric fan, and the whole room was carpeted. After decorating the dormitory, the parents of roommates also took their children to attend various lectures arranged by the school to learn how to choose subjects and the employment prospects of each subject. RED said that the registration process in the United States is like this: 1, registration. On the day of registration, first find the department guidance office. 2. Take the confirmation letter of the dormitory you applied for and get the room key. 3. Attend the orientation meeting. Generally, universities will hold several orientation sessions at the end of August and the beginning of September, so there is no need to waste study time to understand a series of trivial things. 4. Visit the campus, register in the school hospital and have a physical examination. 5, online course selection, audition course.

Rhett said that American universities have a special tradition, that is, many students want to join a "fraternity" or "sorority". This is the main social organization of students in universities, usually named after the Greek alphabet. Don't underestimate this kind of community organization. In college, members of the "fraternity" live together, and most of them have prominent backgrounds. Even before entering school, the family was family friends. All kinds of relatives and friends of members will donate money, and most of them are large donations. They usually have parties and social activities, like a social organization and occasionally recruit new people. However, it is very harsh on newcomers and uses all means to "torture" and "test" newcomers. Some cruel means are simply unimaginable. But many freshmen will flock to these organizations. Because to some extent, it is a symbol of accumulating contacts and status. There is a similar story in the American TV series Gossip Girl. Some children who are considered as "lower class" will never join the "fraternity" and "sorority" of the upper class.

New Zealand: What children are most proud of is working to earn money and being willing to date a lot.

Aurore Kerry West Spring High School, Auckland, New Zealand

Kerry is from China. She came to New Zealand to attend high school at the age of 17. As a newcomer and an international student from Asia, her skin color is very special among a group of blond children, but she quickly integrated into the local high school education model. "I live at home (at a friend's house). When school starts, the school bus will pick us up at the bus stop near our community. My parents just sent it to the bus stop. No parents will drive their children to school with big bags on their backs. A school bus is a bus that usually runs in the city. It just hangs the school bus sign temporarily during school hours to pick us up. Going to school alone is another big family in the school. " KARY said that as soon as she came to school, the seniors in senior three immediately came to show them around the whole school and tell them what high school life was like. When children in New Zealand are in the lower grades, they also wrap book covers every semester, but they wrap exercise books. All kinds of cartoon-colored sticky paper are directly stuck on the exercise books and wrapped to express each child's own preferences. The whole school is divided into "tribes" with three colors of heaven, earth and people, all of which are named after Maori. Every tribe, children from grade one to grade three mix and match, and then each "tribe" is divided into several "administrative small classes". Each class still has children of all ages and a head teacher. At this time, the concepts of small collective and large collective are formed in children's minds. On the morning of the first day of school, the head teacher will tell all the children in the "small class", and every morning after that, it will be like this. After that, children of different grades go to different classrooms to have their own classes, and come back at noon or afternoon to get together.

When she first arrived at school, KARY found her friends. Everyone had a "study diary", and each child wrote down his own schedule for a semester and every day on the grid calendar. And what happened that day, they will also record, write down their feelings and moods, and post photos. KARY's high school is a high school that emphasizes art education. The academic burden is really not light. The exams are all subjective questions written in English, and there is no place to copy them. Because in an examination room, the content and subjects of each row of seats are different, although you can bring all kinds of reference books and even your favorite novels to read.

However, KARY said that in school, children are most proud of finding a particularly good workplace, making a lot of money, modifying their cars and dating many girls, rather than being proud of their good grades. After the holiday, there are children with broken arms and legs everywhere. Many children are fixed with white plaster, because they are injured when they go skiing, bungee jumping and various activities during the holiday. "The funniest thing is that we all write greetings on each child's plaster to wish him a speedy recovery, or write various jokes to belittle and hurt him." During the holidays, there are only occasional homework. KARY remembers that the math teacher gave them a question to tell the children to download the data from the lottery website for several years and let them think about how to calculate the winning probability.

France: Freshmen are cool and independent, and there is great pressure to be baptized by seniors.

Caen University, France

French students are very independent. Even if their parents have cars, many students still drive used cars or take the train alone and report to school happily. School dormitories in France attach great importance to students' personal privacy, and each student who lives on campus enjoys a dormitory alone. Unless it is a couple's dormitory, it is a room for two. Compared with the scene of China's "mighty" motorcade sending freshmen to report for duty, the entrance of freshmen in French universities is much lower-key. KAVIN, from the University of Caen in Normandy, said that freshmen usually go to the city where the school is located a few months in advance during the summer vacation, apply for a dormitory, find a place to work and adapt to the environment. Maybe parents will accompany their children at this time, but when school really starts, parents can hardly accompany their children to school.

There is a tradition in French universities that freshmen should be "tested" at the beginning of each new semester. There are many ways to tease freshmen: dusting them with flour, ringing church bells in the middle of the night, crawling like a dog and so on.

Kevin was "screwed up" by this tradition as soon as he entered school. First, the seniors threw out a mixture of flour and eggs, and then they were dragged to the street to "March" and accepted the flour baptism of passers-by to make things worse. This tradition originated from Paris University in the12nd century. Freshmen are regarded as "kids" and must be baptized by "elders" before they can be admitted. Later it became an atmosphere. This ancient tradition has spread to modern society and become a campus activity to reduce the pressure of starting school and integrate into the new environment, which is very popular.

Calvin said that in France, there are many large and small parades. Some students have strong organizational and calling skills. For example, when the education system reform raised tuition fees at that time, the student union organization once blocked all the roads leading to the classroom with tables and chairs, and no one could go to class, which triggered a large-scale strike protest. French students like to join such organizations with political demands. In fact, there is nothing the school can do about these student union organizations. Therefore, when new students start school, on the one hand, the student union organizes all-out recruitment and warmly welcomes students to join. On the other hand, the school will try its best to publicize itself and tell new students that they can find this department in the future if they have such problems, and they can find that department if they have such problems, and they can communicate with each other and discuss everything. This makes KAVIN, a freshman, feel highly valued and feel a kind of democracy from school and society.

Australia: Most local students sign up by themselves, mostly China students, accompanied by their parents.

University of Melbourne Monash University in Ji Xuan

Finishing dong

Cao Kun, an undergraduate majoring in biomedicine at the University of Melbourne, Australia, came to Australia from the second year of high school and entered the University of Melbourne in March this year. In an interview with reporters, he said: "I went by myself at the beginning of school, and most of my classmates did." Only a few local Chinese are accompanied by their parents. "Cao Kun said that the first few days of school were mainly to help freshmen get familiar with the environment." On the first day, a senior took us to visit the campus in groups of seven or eight, and then there was a free barbecue. After a few days of free activities, you can also go to some lectures related to your major. "On the first day of school, I visited the campus, listened to lectures, got familiar with the classroom, had lunch with my high school classmates, then made some new friends and joined some clubs. Ji Xuan, a sophomore majoring in banking and finance at Monash University in Australia, recalled to reporters, "Parents seldom get together when they report for duty. Children 16 years old have basically gone out to work, and some people have lived separately from their parents and are very independent. He said, "Most international students from China come by themselves. After all, air tickets are not cheap. Of course, a small number of students come with their parents, travel first, and then their parents return to China. " As for how she spent the first day of school, Ji Xuan said, "On the first day of school, I first listened to the teacher's lecture on the school system, and then went to the computer room to choose classes and confirm the class time. Then join the BBQ organized by the school. After eating the barbecue, visiting the campus, and getting a good student ID card, it will be OK. "

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