Capirola + GKC: Opportunity for Exchange

Living in Leno…

gives you a good feeling: it is a small town with lots of things to do, compared to our  hometown Gnosjö. Summer days are hot and long, in the nights you can take walks with friends, eating an ice cream or go to pubs and hang out with people you maybe don’t even know. But they will be friendly to you anyway!
Capirola, the school in Leno, is a little bit different from GKC. School begins at 8:00 a.m. and ends at 13:00 or 14:00 p.m. When the pupils arrive at school they must stick a personal card into a machine and register, so the teachers know that they are in school. During breaks pupils are not allowed to leave the school area until lessons have finished for the day. The classrooms are very big and there are around 2000 pupils. They don’t use so much technology as we do, like laptops, but they rather take notes by hand. The teachers seem to be very close to their students, and they give the pupils all the help they need. I think, however, that the teachers are not as close to their students as teachers are in our school. The students don’t have so many subjects in school, and their breaks are just 5 minutes between the lessons. 

                                                                           A view of Capirola's schoolyard

Written by Arjanita Hyseni