In canada, grade 1-6 is elementary school, 7-9 is middle school, and 10-12 is high school. I just passed grade 8, so I guess I will be in grade 9 when the fall rolls in.

That's the same way it is in Arizona!   You forgot that you still have to work for high school credits, I mean if you use them.

What worries me, though, is sitting in rows. I can't stand sitting in rows. They even had us in groups back in my middle school. The only time I sat in rows was in my math class, since we gave my teacher a seriously hard time. xP

The thing I'm most worried about is finding where everything is, but I can find my way around eventually, I hope. Another great plus is that they don't have lockers where I'm going, thank God, which means I don't have to worry about any jammed lockers or forgetting combinations. =]

Yeah, so I'm a little jittery about it, but I'm sure it will be fine. And hopefully fun.

Hmm...here's a little thing I doubt you all knew. You know how Freshman, Junior, and Senior sound normal, but sophmore sounds like a weird word? Sophmore traces its roots to Socrates and another latin word that means stupid and in which the modern day 'moronic' is derived from.

So, a sophmore means, intelligent fool.

I...kinda... agree with that literal meaning...

...because through our whole family bloodline, all of our worst grades were when we were second year of either college or high school.

I didn't have a great second year myself (last year), and compared to this year, it's so low.

School in Australia

Preschool
Primary School: kindergarten to 6
High School: 7 to 12.

Personally I prefer schools in the US. Because, from what I've seen on TV,
-You don't have school uniforms
-You have lockers(We don't have lockers at our school. We have all our books in our bag, which we have to carry everywhere)
-Your school is indoors. (So her is aus after having a class and looking at a white sheet of paper you come out in the sun which makes things a bit blue).
-You have more extra ciriculum activities.
-And since our schools differ, I can't relate to tv shows because nearly all of them were filmed in the US.
-You have a chance of being in a movie or tv show, just by simply going to a school.

That's why I'd prefer schools in the US.

Actually its:
Kindergarten (4 y/o)
Pre Primary (5 y/o)
Primary School (Year 1 to 7)
High School (Year 8 to 12)

We have lockers and I live in Australia and we can have heaps of extra-curriculum activities.

So, a sophmore means, intelligent fool.

Preschool
Primary School: kindergarten to 6
High School: 7 to 12.

Personally I prefer schools in the US. Because, from what I've seen on TV,
-You don't have school uniforms
-You have lockers(We don't have lockers at our school. We have all our books in our bag, which we have to carry everywhere)
-Your school is indoors. (So her is aus after having a class and looking at a white sheet of paper you come out in the sun which makes things a bit blue).
-You have more extra ciriculum activities.
-And since our schools differ, I can't relate to tv shows because nearly all of them were filmed in the US.
-You have a chance of being in a movie or tv show, just by simply going to a school.

That's why I'd prefer schools in the US.

Nursery (3-4 years old) (optional school the parents choose whether their children go or not)

Primary (5-11 years old) (first proper school have to go to)

Secondary (11- 16 years old) (school that GCSE's are done last 5 years of school)

secondary you could call high school in a way and yes most people are nervous about going to a larger school than the previous one i was worried about going to secondary but its fine honestly you have nothing to worry about