Ethnographic Study

I am doing an "Ethnographic Study" for two credits this semester. The goal is to observe Spanish culture and understand why the do things the way the do, etc. I am doing my study at Alfa and Omega, the private Christian school connected with the Baptist Church that I attend here. I am observing two different high school English classes every Monday for 2 hours. I have gone twice now, and have already come to the conclusion that education is very different at Alfa and Omega than in the United States. This are more laid back and . . . loud. The teacher sits on her desk, the students talk a lot, and everything starts late. The relationship between the teacher and the students is quite different too. They hug and run up to her desk in the middle of class discussions and call her by her first name, Teresa. I actually like a lot of these differences, and in as most cultural things, the class is not better or worse than classes I have had, just different.