Skyping with New Zealand and Australia

This six weeks our anatomy class had the privilege of skyping with a school in New Zealand to talk with them about how living a healthy life style differs than in America. It was interesting to see how things were different even simple things like the way they introduced themselves.  When the video connected we were greeted by two different schools, an all boys school from New Zealand and and international school in Australia. The teacher from the New Zealand school wanted a very formal introduction.

The sound quality from the Australia was not very good so we only picked up some of what they had to say. What we did learn was that as an international school the students come from all over the world and attend the school for a 6 moths program. While they are there they take cooking classes and learn how to shop at local farmers market as well as  how to prepare food in healthy ways.  

The New Zealand school was an all boys school. We learned that they eat a lot of sea food. They seemed very interested in all the fast food restaurants in America and could not believe that there was a fast food restaurant on every street corner. In New Zealand they have fast food restaurants  but they are not on every corner and they are seen as very negative thing so people try and avoid eating there. The boys also seemed very interested in how America preserves its land.

It was very fun and interesting skyping with schools from different countries and it put into perspective what other people around the world think about america.