Since I couldn't ask an international student from our class this question, I was not able to ask my two friends Celia or Linda, but I knew one other exchange student personally. I asked Camille Gerstenhaber what the one major difference between her country's education system and her new education here at UWEC was. She said that "In high school in France we have to choose a specialty (either science, economics or literature) and at the end of our senior year we have a huge exam called the BAC. If we fail it we don't graduate so then we have to repeat our senior year. The difference is that in France schooling is very serious with consequences. It is more casual here." (This picture was taken at the David Cook concert, left to right: Camille, me, Celia)
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