1. Initial Concept
2. And I’ve moved around a lot so that’s a kind of difference because it seems like a lot of people here haven’t really moved around a whole lot. The stay in one place kind of, so yeah.
3. Emerging Concept
4. Expanding Worlds
   1. Um, people I don’t know and the school is big. Very big. Bigger than my school, a lot bigger.
   2. Um… well, I think it’s different because you learn kind of different things and you, and like in history we are learning about different places around the world, and you kind of, you learn more about other people kind of. Yeah. And yeah.
5. Identity/Identity Formation
   1. Yeah. Like, what’s happening to me now is going to affect how I behave in the future.
   2. It’s weird because I meet more people and, um, I feel like I’m the youngest kid in school because there are kids who are older than me, and, um, I make new friends with people I don’t know.
   3. Helen
      1. I don’t know. Okay, I guess, well, people call me weird, and I guess I fall into a lot of different categories, but, um, I was born in Armenia and then I moved here when I was two, and my, how my family is very, very different from all of my friends. My parents are strict, and, um…
6. Intercultural
   1. Uh… I think it means to like interact with other cultures and to learn about them and to observe them, and for them to observe you.
   2. And comparing, kind of. Uh… maybe learn new tactics to teach their children.
   3. Kind of being aware of other cultures, and, again, finding the similarities, differences, and proving according to their similarities.
   4. Value of IA
      1. Knowing more about other people’s cultures in that.
      2. Being prepared.
      3. Well I think it’s appropriate to learn about other cultures because I’m Filipino and African American, and my mom is Filipino, so recently we visited the Philippines, and I saw like how my cousins live, and it’s not, and the Philippines is obviously not as advanced as the U.S., but it, for some reason I still see that they are closer to each other even without all the stuff that they have and the stuff we have, and families are much closer there than they are here.
      4. Subtopic 4
7. Diversity/Difference
   1. I don’t know. There’s a, in my elementary school there wasn’t a huge variety of different people, and here, the first month of school was just crazy for me. I didn’t know what to do. There’s kids who aren’t very nice. They come up to you and say something mean, you don’t even know them. You don’t know what to do, and you kind of learn to cope with that.
   2. Um, lot of different cultures, um, customs like, yeah.
   3. Differences in Learning
      1. I think that the way that kids learn is very different from other kids, like, it could be like super smart and just average.
      2. So it, it’s easier to understand the teacher because not all the time they’re like not always at the level of the smartest kids. They’re kind of on the level of teaching everybody and not just some people.
      3. It seems like they learned everything. Everything we’re learning now, they’ve learned a while ago, and they seem to learn like the base of everything first and then kind of build up. Like, I’m in algebra here, and we do a different subject every, like, almost every week we do one thing. We barely get it down. I still might not know much, and then we skip to another one.
   4. Culture
      1. Um, well, I don’t know. Like my mom, well, I have to get everything done before I can do something. My mom… well, I play piano, and she sets a time limit and I have to reach it or do more, and she always wants me to do like extra work, like extra math.
      2. Also the way that people grew up and how like, how like their parents raised them, and there’s a lot of like really, like, obedient kids and kids who aren’t really, like, disobedient and cause a lot of trouble
   5. Race
      1. Um, where I went for Lafayette for my elementary school, there weren’t many diversities. It was mostly Caucasian, and when I came to Deal, it was mostly African American, so it was kind of a big change for me, kind of.
   6. Um, well like everyone is really different but a lot of people get along even though they are so different, so that’s kind of cool
   7. Class
      1. Um, I guess the lower kids that come from a lower class of families and then like the highest
   8. Language
      1. I just have another example. There are some students that know very little English and yet other people who are very fluent and have grown, been born here and grew up here, um, manage to become friends with them somehow.
8. International Mindeness
   1. Perspective
      1. I think we, if we like all went to other countries and see how America actually acts and see how we talk to other kids from other countries, and learn about what they thought of America, some may think it’s great and some may have different opinions about the way we do stuff and same with us for other countries
      2. It can really make you think about, like, what they’re thinking kind of, like thinking about their perspective and opinion or something.
      3. I just kind of have a comment about that. Um, I go to Armenia every summer to visit my family, and my friends there, they live in the observatory because that’s where they were, and they think America is amazing. Everyone wants to be your friend because you’re from America and they want you to show them and tell them everything about it. “Have you seen Angelina Jolie? How is Brad Pitt?” And all this other stuff. It’s pretty funny.
      4. Limits
         1. Um, like appreciating what I have and understanding why they can’t have all that stuff, and it… I was, when I’m talking to some other people, and they something that I don’t agree with, I might see, I might understand why they say that because they may not have been exposed or I may not have been exposed to that yet
   2. Uh… I think it’s very, uh… very chaotic. There’s a lot of stuff going on and we learn about a lot of international stuff. We also have international night which is the first month, first two months of school.
   3. Usefulness
      1. Uh, for me I don’t really find it very useful because when I talk about things that are different, my friends don’t know what I’m talking about and it’s really difficult for me to explain it.
      2. If they don’t have anything different, if it is all like American stuff in your house, then you don’t really get an idea of other cultures if, I don’t know, your parents travel a lot and you have stuff from all over the world, your parents might come back and tell you about this place and you get a sense of their destination.
9. Getting Along
10. Movement/Place
    1. Well kind of both because people will come with travel and, um, around… like… um… people, like a lot of people are coming, come to America and so you, and so that means you meet a lot of different people from all over.
11. School Role
    1. It kind of prepares you because when you go out there you are going to be meeting a lot of people from all over, so you’re going to kind of be used to seeing new people and used to the differences between people
    2. Okay, well, learning about like their history, other cultures’, er, countries’ history and their present and what they do now. Uh… kind of like it helps you learn more about these other cultures from like different points of view and how they change from now, from then and to now.
    3. Curriculum
       1. Yeah. Okay. So it influences many things. Like in Greece they are famous for their debates, and that’s what we have in court, and they have democracies. So do we. Also, their alphabet developed into the English and the Russian alphabet.
       2. Well, I think their culture applies to many present cultures now, especially America’s culture and most of the Western civilization, and I actually went to Washington Latin in fifth grade, and I thought that I learned a lot about Rome and Greece and Italy since I went to Washington Latin, so, and we learned a lot about how they worked and their merchants and their civilizations also.
    4. Teachers
       1. They should, I think they should make sure we don’t get the wrong idea around it.