IBDP: What are we getting ourselves into?
What is the IB Diploma Program? What does a DP student’s day look like? Is it really as stressful as people make it out to be? If you’ve ever wondered these questions before or have occasionally worried about how to make it through the “horror”…
Is Social Media Destroying Our Society?
Heads bent, eyes wide open, and thumbs moving at record time, we post, message, and check our social media accounts constantly. Our parents and teachers are always telling us to spend less time on our phones and on the Internet. It’s bad for our eyes,…
Top 5 Books to Read This Semester
For many high schoolers, reading for pleasure has become non-existent. The days of hastily flipping through the pages of new Harry Potter books and eagerly awaiting “free reading time” has, for many, been replaced with checking the number of likes on Instagram, the numerous summative…
TCK Kids to AISB Teachers: A Q&A with Margritha Hofman
Being an international school, AISB obviously has a lot of TCK students; but there are also quite a few teachers that grew up as 3rd culture kids themselves. One of these teachers, Margritha Hofman, Service Learning Coordinator and DP Physics Teacher, takes a seat to…