Hey, Thursday, September 15th was my first day of school for the year.

Here's my picture in front of the school at, oh, 7:20am.

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Yes, I got to wear a yellow tee-shirt and jeans for the first day of school.

That's because the house that I belong to is Golden Lions, thus the golden-yellow tee-shirt. Our house has about 70 students and 8 or 9 teachers and on the first day of school we all wear our yellow ACS tee-shirts. My advisory group has nine students--three juniors, two sophomores and four freshmen. It's a pretty good group of students.

So at our school we start the year by introducing all of the new teachers, then we greet the new 8th grade students, play some games in our houses, get to know our advisory groups  and finally we give students their schedules and they find out which sections they are in.  It's a pretty fun day and a good way to ease into school.

Sure it's not the first day of school I grew up with in America but it's also a pretty far cry for the traditional first day of school in Bulgaria. It's an interesting combination of the two.

The first day of school American style. You know where you, as a student, actually meet your teachers and sit in a desk? Well that's September 16th.  The second day of school here in Bulgaria. The day where you get to actually hold class and meet your students.

And the 16th? Well, it was pretty great too. My students