What And IB School Is All About

Hey guys!  I know that y'all must of been worried because I haven't posted anything the past few days since my life is in complete chaos. I mean, my boyfriend cheated on me (and if you have any advice on boys I could obviously use it), I got a C on my science test ( because I'm pretty sure that my teacher hates me... but I'm also pretty sure that I suck at science...), and last but not least, it's stinking 17 degrees here in Silver Spring and I can't think straight when my body is slowly growing icicles.  But either way, today I realized what it means to be an IB student.  I might have been at my current IB school for three years now, but this eleven year old has got to be the most culturally developed kid I've ever seen.  So, in-case y'all didn't know, I'm talking about an International Baccalaureate or IB program.  It's a program designed to help develop the intellectual, personal, emotional and social skills to live learn and work in a rapidly globalizing world.  So it's basically a program to help you become more culturally aware.  But either way, I had this 6th grader put in my class today, because he just moved here from Ukraine and they're deciding which french class to put him in.  Well this boy is amazing.  I mean he speaks five different languages, Ukrainian, Russian, English, Georgian, and French.  He has lived in over 15 countries and he keeps telling us about the amazing cultures.  I mean seriously, he should be the poster boy for IB.  And I realized that while I had only thought of my school as a place where we have people who speak a lot of different languages, I now realize that they are giving us experience learning about all these different cultures so that we can accept them and be like him, a boy who is basically the whole world mashed up into one little eleven year old boy.