BOSTON LATIN SCHOOL by Florent

After the harshest recorded winter in Boston history, spring has finally arrived but there are reminders that last winter was a snowpocalypse!

Boston latin school is the oldest school USA. Founded the April 23 1635, it now counts more than 23000 students from 7th to 12th grade. Their motto is: sumus primi, which means we are the first. Bls has been classed 62th best high school USA. Bls has alot of classrooms just for specific things like music theatre or painting. The cafeteria is enormous, but the food they give is pretty bad. They have the casual biology classes and a gymnasium. But they have something most of the high-school don't, a blackbox: beautiful place which is a theater. 

But for bigger events, they have a huge assembly hall, with the names of the most famous people who graduated at bls are written on the wall, ike John Fitzgerald Kennedy's father and Samuel Adams, who signed the Declaration of Independence.

During the class the history teacher showed us the ad for a game called assassins creed. He told us they were called hashassins because they consumed too much hashish, marijuana. The latin teacher made fun of me while I was reading but gently.
Bls counts alot of groups. Like Youth Can and the Wolfpack, their sport teams.
They finish school at 4:30 pm. But only have 20 minutes to eat.
The American system to school is different, there are 4 types of schools which differ by their teaching methods and their independence.

A classroom in BLS...American flags are everywhere.

 The school's color is purple and so are the lockers. On their birthday, students get their locker decorated and are paraded around the school with helium balloons attached to their bag and a silly hat.

 Sports are very important in the BLS and they have many teams. The best athletes join the "varsity" teams.

 The orchestra is rehearsing...a part from Leonard Bernstein's West Side Story. Did you know that he was a Boston Latin School alumni ( former student)? His name is engraved in Assembly Hall, next to John Fitzgerald Kennedy's father.

 A world map which shows where students have gone on school trips...many post-its in Europe!

In BLS, there are many projects going on, as there are 130+ clubs that students go to, when they have finished school at 2.15 pm. This student shows us the tee shirt she wore to raise awareness about the lack of safe drinking water in some parts of the world.

BLS has generous donors...