Center for Global Studies at Brien McMahon High School

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The Center for Global Studies (CGS) is a magnet school within Brien McMahon High School, in Norwalk, Connecticut. Its primary purpose is to teach students the language, history, and literature of Japan and China. Beginning the 2006-2007 school year, the Center in addition offers Arabic and Middle East Studies. Each year students participate in an exchange program from Japan to American homes, and from America to both Japan (to Kojo and Bunkyo High Schools) and China.

There are currently close to two hundred students enrolled in the program, and the number continues to grow each year. Last year the Center opened their new wing, which is a part of the rebuilding of Brien McMahon High School.It will be fully operational after the winter recess of 2005-2006.

The program was previously known as the Center For Japanese Studies Abroad (CJSA), and dealt solely with Japanese studies.

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-An actual Student view-

CGS is a great program and is a place for outcasts of middle schools to come and find friends, instead of wallowing if self pity and hate, and (usually among the current Japanese students)depression (this is not being said about all Japanese students, just the one the author

A student at home.

A student in front of the entrance to CGS

knows). However, the school is getting so big that "the outcasts are having outcasts" as one student put it. And it's true. Even though the author is only a frosh*, from stories from upperclassmen and women I can peice together. Now "Center Kids" have their own cliqes and groupings, even steyrotypes within the center.

You have... 1)Japanese kids, who supposedly are all freaks, dress funny, and are the "weirdos" of the Center. 2)Chinese students, who are depicted as disturbingly... normal.... 3)Aribic Student, who all seem to be A)Military brats, or B)just jocks in general.

A Japanese student

A chinese student on Halloween

An Aribic student

There are also even more sub-catagories. The two biggest ones would be "Center Kids" and "Kids who are in the center." A "center kid" would be considered a freak if let out into the real world. Hell, they're considered freaks in the highschool. However, there are to many of us for them to say anything! MWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!*coughs* A "kid in the center" however is considered "normal" and will probably end up in an office job, if not in the hospital because of some joke their "dumbass center kid" friends made them do. I would like to note watching kids in the center do stupid things is very entertaining because they're so normal it's scary. So... yeah And now this center student must leave... because her coffee is getting cold and her bagle is done. Please don't erase? Admit it, you laughed at some point.