Join the Engleesh Honor Society!

Every IA student is required to take a foreign language all four years. The options are Spanish, French, German, and (for the first time this year) Mandarin Chinese. Each of the languages (except Chinese as far as I know because it's so new) has an Honor Society for upperclassmen who have good enough grades and an interest in the language, where members (and/or others who decide to show up sometimes) meet twice a month to practice speaking it. In Spanish Honor Society (which is the one I'm in, so all my facts are based off of it. I think the others are pretty similar though) we have one activity per month, where we do something fun like go to the ropes course or play Laser Tag while trying to remember to speak Spanish, and one meeting per month to plan the activity. Each year, each Honor Society designs a sweatshirt that members can buy, and there are always people wearing them around school. (I'd like to note that one of the options for us this year was a sweatshirt that said "¿Cómo se llama?" with a picture of a llama. It didn't win, but I loved the idea! The one that won is cool too.) Last year, FHS members voted on a design that said (in French- I don't remember how to say it...sorry) "I Like Chocolate" with a chocolate-covered strawberry on the front, and a cool graphic that said "Socièté Honoraire de Français" on the back. The funny part is, when they sent it in to get printed, the company (sure guys, blame the company) messed it up. Take a look:


Yeah. Françias. Fran-see-ahs. They spelled it wrong. They tried to cover it up by insisting that it was some sort of inside-joke that only FHS members get, but no one bought that. I just have this wonderful image of students at an IB school in France shouting, "Hey everyone! Come join the Engleesh Honor Society!"

Special thanks to Kavya for letting me get that pic.