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My Four-Months Visit to a High School in America 美国金克斯高中与成都七中是友好学校，每年两校派多名师生互访，下文是我校外语组老师在美国金克斯高中交流所见所闻： In the early morning of September 3rd, 2005, a delegation(代表团) composed of (组成) twelve students, a Chinese teacher and an English teacher (me) from Chengdu No. 7 High School left Chengdu airport, starting our trip to visit the sister school of Chengdu No. 7 High School ---Jenks High School in Tulsa, Oklahoma, America. During the first month, the students and teachers lived in their respective(各自的) partner’s houses and made presentations about Chinese culture, attended classes and took some tours in Tulsa. Three weeks later all the students were back to China, I began to make presentations and attend classes. So far three months has passed since we arrived in America. The following is what I get to know about Jenks High School. Jenks High School includes three grade levels: Sophomore, Junior and Senior, which is similar to senior 1, senior 2, and senior 3 of the senior middle school in China Jenks High School has about 2,100 students. Majority of the students is Americans. The minority(少数民族) includes Mexicans, Chinese, Koreans, Vietnamese, Indians and so on. The students all come from the neighborhood of Jenks district. The school is financially(财政) supported by the state through tax. That is to say parents of the students needn’t pay tuition(学费). The school doesn’t have dormitories(寝室) for its students. All the students either drive their cars to school or take the school bus, or their parents drive them to school every day. In America, students are allowed to drive cars when they are above 16. Eighty six percent of the students in Jenks High School drive their own cars to school. In order to afford their gasoline, students do part-time jobs. They may work 25 hours a week and earn about $5.5 per hour. Many students work in the restaurants. There are six class hours in a day with school starting at 7:50a.m and ending at 2: 30 p.m. Each class is 55 minutes.