Blog Post 5
1. Yes I have felt how Anne has like when my parents keep nagging me about me doing my homework and if I haven't then they will just ask 3 million more times. Or if I accidentally hurt my sister then they are so mad at me but when she does the same thing then they are totally ok with that!

2. I actually help my parents when it is important like when I need to clean my room of if I need to vacuum the living room but if they ask me to wash the dishes then it's not such a big deal for me so I don't really do it. But otherwise I don't think that I am that bad.

3. Yes because if Anne would listen and obey to her parents then they won't nag her about every single thing in life.

Blog Post 4
I can relate to Anne because she thinks that all adults are stupid. I don't think that all adults are stupid and maybe stupid is a very harsh word but I think that a lot of adults are very annoying because for example my parents are annoying when they keep nagging me about stuff like homework or if I have cleaned my room yet. Again I am not saying that adults are stupid I just think that some are very annoying to me.

Blog Post 3
In Anne's sucumstances I am most thankful for that I am not a Jew in that time. That I don't need to go into hiding for however many years. That I can live without anyone judging me because of who or what I am. I am also thankful because I can walk on the streets and I can be outside after eight o'clock and no one will arrest me for it. I'm thankful because I don't have to live with another family who are very annoying.

Article in The Budapest Times

Please read this article on GGIS 

published in The Budapest Times 

on September 5, 2011.

http://www.budapesttimes.hu/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=20358&Itemid=30

It is hard to believe but school has started in GGIS over a week ago. We had to say good bye to some of our old students due to relocation, graduation, change of schools, etc. This is one of the drawbacks of an international school; there is constant fluctuation and moving from one place to the next.  Kids are amazingly resilient. They adjust to new circumstances, countries, peers, languages, teachers, schools much faster than we do.  

On the upside, many new faces smile at us in the hallways and classrooms. Americans, Hungarians, Japanese, Koreans, Nigerians, etc.  The versatile, multi-cultural student body is a great opportunity for students to learn about different cultures but more importantly, to learn to live in our diverse, flat world.

There is so much more than "simply" the academics to be learnt in an international school. Kids learn to cope with each other's different customs, cultures and curiosities. Given the small size of our school there is a family-like atmosphere which is reflected in the students' interaction with each other.  I love to see how high school students tease and play with little first graders as if they were their little brothers or sisters. One of our Greek students for example "shocked" our elementary kids by singing Greek songs in recess and affectionately pinching their cheeks - as Greeks do.  His love and inherent kindness for children was "in his blood", woven into the fabric of his being.  That's how he grew up, this is what he saw growing up, and that's what he did. He just loved kids and wasn't afraid to express it.

More to come next from our little, international haven in Budapest ...